Something else about Queen Mab that bothers me is the fact that Willoughby had told Marianne the horse "was exactly calculated to carry a woman". He breeds horses himself on his estate (which would seem to be a rather expensive undertaking for someone with an income of only £600 a year! The Dashwood women cannot even afford to keep one horse on £500 a year, let alone enough horses to be breeding them. True they are four, and Willoughby is one, but he has servants and an estate, not a cottage.