Posted by Jon on August 22, 2007 at 17:04:25 from 199.159.117.116 user Jon.
In Reply to: Re: 'Toff' ruled out (was Amazons Toffs? posted by Peter H on August 22, 2007 at 15:25:13:
There's also the point that Bob Blackett would have had to be around long enough to 1) get to know Jim and Mollie Turner and 2) make an unfavorable impression on the GA for whatever reason. Granted, he could have been a summer visitor on an extended stay, either, like Ransome, at friends of the family, or as a PG at a nearby farmhouse (Swainson's?). The more likely reasons for Maria Turner's disapproval would seem to be a lower status (sorry!) as an area farmer, or as a PG. Surely if he'd been of a local family of the Turners' status (whatever that may have been) or better, he'd have been acceptable to her as consort to Mollie.