"She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men."

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At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

— Charles Dickens