Yeah, but also, if this house came to Isabella's parents from her mother's side, I think it's actually reasonable for Isabella to have a lifelong expectation of receiving the house. You know, assuming any of them could afford to keep it (probably, bc everything about this letter suggests rich asshole class). That doesn't mean it's necessarily a good way to manage inheritance if he was going to have a younger wife and other children, like... monetarily, and it doesn't change the fact that I'm inclined to read the guy as beyond the pale for dating Madison in the first place, but still. I'm an old house hobbyist, and it's hard to look beyond my empathy for Isabella's attachment to it.