Z.’s Reviews > The Devil's Delilah > Status Update

'You’ve been splendid all this time, when another woman would have been weeping and fainting and making a pitiful spectacle of herself.' In context this is Lord Berne (wannabe OM) manipulating Delilah, but it's also one of the things that's bothering me about this book -- the heroine has to be not just an exceptional person, but an exceptional *woman*