This whole matter of Mrs. Bennet prohibiting the use of the horses for the carriage confirms that she is, very much, without common sense. Prodding along an attachment is one thing. To send Jane over in the rain on horseback is quite another. It's silly. That's the kind of role model the two youngest girls have looked up to.
Besides, wouldn't it have been more appropriate to go riding over to a gentleman's house in a more ladylike fashion? Wouldn't it score more points in the eyes of a noble suitor?
Even more, I'm not sure who is sillier--the mother for suggesting such an absurd plot--or the father who claims to have sense, but goes along with the scheme in the end.
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As you said in an earlier post, it is surprising (based on the parents) that any of the Bennet girls have any sense at all. While the father is not as completely insensible as the mother, perhaps he did not quite "hope for the worst" in the weather as Mrs. Bennet had. (Perhaps in letting Jane travel as he did, he was putting as much stock in Mrs. Bennet's weather reports as in anything else that came from her?)
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