In chapter 8 of Awakened Heart, although Sophie gets a cheque-book, she doesn't go on a shopping spree. Rijk admits that she dresses charmingly, but that she'll not want to wear the same clothes too often because "I can't have my friends saying that I don't give you enough pin money" (p. 158).
Not "you should dress well, because of your position as the wife of a well-known doctor", or "I'll enjoy seeing you well-turned-out", or "I'd like to make you happy, and this is one way I can do that". All of those are true, but which does he choose? The one about what his friends will think. Rijk can be a bit of a jerk, I think.
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