Thanks for the reminder about the harp, Cheryl, but it sounds like the Musgroves would have come by carriage anyway. I agree that practically everybody today would take a car to go 3 miles, Annette, but I was thinking that a lady without her own carriage, like Anne, would have been dependent on the convenience of others to go anywhere, and if I really wanted to see my sister (which is a very questionable point in her case, I know ;-), I wouldn't let 3 miles stop me. Also, as Maryanne points out, it was frowned on for single young ladies to go out by themselves, yet I wonder how pervasive that was. I remember reading somewhere that JA herself was a great walker, and I suspect the rules may have been relaxed for a lady no longer in her first youth ;-) (though I have no proof of that).