It annoyed her that they were thinking of signing over the farm to Peter. It exasperated her to be passed over as if she were of no consequence. After all, she was the daughter of the house and surely had some rights. She resented the attitude that men carried more weight where land inheritance was concerned. She should have the same rights as Mark. Nellie Phelan had thought of her own daughter when making her will and had given her rights in Mossgrove. It irked her that Nellie Phelan had provided better for her daughter’s future than her own mother was going to do for her. When she thought about it, Nellie Phelan’s will was very far-seeing. It had prevented herself from selling Mossgrove, and she was glad of that now. She wondered what else was in that will. Ned had never got around to making one, so could there be any other clause in Nellie’s will that she should know about? Maybe the time had come to visit Mr Hobbs and find out the lie of the land. If she had gone to him after Ned’s death she would have spared herself a lot of trouble.
