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Thanks latepaul. I haven't read Sacred Hearts but I know that young women were disposed of like that - "Get thee to a nunnery" said Hamlet. So my question was somewhat rhetorical and my assumption was that her father sent her there.
Yes, I do agree with you about how dangerous women were, unless you could turn them into total doormats. The awful thing is that there are still a great many people in the world who continue to think this way.
I couldn't look on D'Artagnan's behaviour towards both Milady and her servant Kitty as anything other than utterly despicable. Presumably we were supposed to think that Kitty didn't matter because she was, after all, only a servant, and that Milady was so evil that she deserved anything that might be done to her. It says a lot about the attitudes towards women at the time the book was written, rather than just the period in which it was set.
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