] ] "Perhaps", said Elinor, "thirty-five and seventeen had better not have anything to do with matrimony together."

It is a stretch for us today to see a 17 year old girl and a 35 year old man without wondering what he would see in her, besides the obvious, that would make him stay interested for the long haul. The life experiences are not the same, the economic situation is not the same, but that Brandon was smitten cannot be denied! Sometimes hormones are to blame for some odd pairings!