Sense and Sensibility

My friend Ginger and I are reading Sense and Sensibility together - about two chapters a day. She plans to summarize chapters to help her remember them (narration?)

I've seen the movie with Emma Thompson (the guy who played Willoughby is her real-life husband) but never read the book. It's helping to fill in some things - such as why the dying father couldn't leave the house to his dependent wife and daughters. The property wasn't actually his to begin with. It had been left to his little boy when the little boy was a four-year-old who charmed and won the heart of the rich uncle, and he willed it to the little boy - and that little boy grew up to be the man with the stingy wife who pressures him to be less generous with the half-sisters and stepmother he promised his dying father he would care for.

I thought this was interesting about the youngest sister: 'Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humoured, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.' I wonder whatever happened to Margaret?

The scene where Hugh Grant pretends not to know where the Nile River is in order to lure Margaret from her hiding place - that's not in the book.