I don’t think she loves one child more than the other.. but, I can see why people take that angle, remember Pearl is the child she called ‘hard to mother’. I don’t think Pearl was an afterthought in this bag collection per se either, but rather that she went into it wanting the cute matchy ‘mummy and me’ angle with Darcy and can’t, because Pearl is so young, do the same with Pearl… I think she definitely has some sort of preconception on what a daughter should behave like (mini me, quiet, crafty) and because Pearl doesn’t fit that mold (loud, opinionated, energetic) she feels out of her comfort zone and so retreats further toward Darcy, rather than sitting there and nurturing Pearl’s interests.