To me, it feels like a return to the way some women made money in the interwar years, when female employment was getting going but a degree of patronage was still expected. Like Jean Rhys, whose former lovers paid her an allowance for years after breaking things off; this was a normal thing to do with women you slept with but didn’t marry, like engagement rings were insurance against a broken engagement. Just as marriage was an economic arrangement, women who didn’t take that more straightforward route were provided for financially.