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“Tom do you have any idea what it means to be a woman in this society?”

He blinked at her, confused.

“Do you have the slightest notion of our constant, debilitating fear knowing that at every moment, our fortunes depend upon staying in the good graces of the men in our lives that we are all, at every moment of the day, one step away ruination, whether we are a lowly gentleman‘s daughter or even a queen.”