nineveh_uk

You're right - that does imply an annuity. :( I think a single woman, living very modestly, would need about fifty pounds a year (or about a thousand pounds invested). So there's at the worst thirty-five pounds a year to find (or wring out of Frank Churchill. I wonder if the Dixons could do something? If Mrs Dixon is there at the birth, and hears Jane's anxieties?