John Dashwood describes his professed financial difficulties to Elinor, hoping for her sympathy: "And then I have made a little purchase within this half year: East Kingham Farm; you must remember the place where old Gibson used to live. The land was so very desirable for me in every respect, so immediately adjoining my own property, that I felt it my duty to buy it. I could not have answered it to my conscience to let it fall into any other hands. A man must pay for his convenience, and it has cost me a vast deal of money."