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Originally Posted by stuartjmz
Clouds of Witness Dorothy Sayers
The "done thing" is to tell oneself "it's of its time", but one of the problems I have with phrases like this is that my reaction to them pulls me out of the story. The first was repellent - I literally said out loud, "Seriously? Ugh!" The second, more passively unpleasant.
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Really? As a female, it pleases me. Part of that, of course, is that I've read the whole series and I know how Lord Peter *treats* Harriet, with honor and dignity, and allows her to make up her own mind.