... because Victorian fathers having control over the family finances is truly terrifying.. was truly terrifying in the Victorian age and in the Edwardian age that succeeded it.. when the Victorian father still controlled the finances of the family still well into the Edwardian age.. and this was a truly terrifying scenario for those familites.. truly terrifying... truly terrifying.. and the adult sons of these families.. of these Victorian, Edwardian families.. the adult sons of these families literally having no authority whatsoever over the finances of the family and having regularly to live on teh two dollar coins teh son would ask regularly of the father of this Victorian / Edwardian household... the adult son of these family household having no authority or control over family finances.. well.. you can only already have been witness to what happened in the century that succeeded the Victorian era, that succeeded the eighteenth century.. namely the twentieth century...

... the beginning of another novel by Henry James....