Did Marjory have a job?
Not strictly, I'd say.
...what did she do for money?
She and her family (if either parent was still alive) may have had some sort of income from their property; either renting an acreage out or having it farmed. I have to assume that, having attended school with Audrey, Marjory must have once been suitably set-up to afford all the same privileges - even if not as comfortably.
I believe it was shown to be typical village practice for property owners to be allowed to live off of a kind of perpetual credit, at least in the recent past. The account might, in the extreme, not get settled until the dead person's estate was in probate or whatever. Audrey still hadn't paid her family doctor for attending her late husband during his final illness.
Marjory seemed to live quite a frugal life as we saw. No car or newer clothes; riding her bicycle or walking nearly everywhere, so transport costs would be the odd train fare to go into the big city. Living off the land for basic foods and putting by ones own preserves for winter were the usual way in old village life.
she liked things like instant coffee
Packaged foods and tropical fresh fruit would be the kind of treat item that nobody would turn down exactly because they were a big deal in those times.
I'd guess that Marjory was towards the lower end of the land-owning scale that formed Audrey's schoolgirl and social circle until she lost the estate. This made Marjory better adapted to coping with real life on little-to-no income than her pal. Perhaps doing occasional jobs for cash or in barter paid enough to cover Marjory's needs. Certainly she wasn't going into an office or working in a shop.
Eeek!!! I'm getting dressed.
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Future_Games
10 years ago
She and her family (if either parent was still alive) may have had some sort of income from their property; either renting an acreage out or having it farmed. I have to assume that, having attended school with Audrey, Marjory must have once been suitably set-up to afford all the same privileges - even if not as comfortably.
I never thought of that.
Marjory seemed to live quite a frugal life as we saw. No car or newer clothes; riding her bicycle or walking nearly everywhere, so transport costs would be the odd train fare to go into the big city. Living off the land for basic foods and putting by ones own preserves for winter were the usual way in old village life.
Her living room furniture and décor looked simple and old-fashioned.
Packaged foods and tropical fresh fruit would be the kind of treat item that nobody would turn down exactly because they were a big deal in those times.
I didn't know that.
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