[quote=@Mystic Song]
Yes. Yes you could have. :P
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Yes, but at what (literal) cost?
-It's not like he could've taken monthly-payments.

If not for the clothes on her back, how else would one have afforded new clothes?
*That or sell her to a well-to-do just to avoid paying the cost-of-living.

Plausible if he suspected she wouldn't have survived the winter, or seemed happier as such.
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Right, should probably pick a different pairing...