These reasons are so discoverable with a little reflection that it is not worth my while to set them out for you.

I will only mention this: that the part falling to women's share being all "influence" has an air of occult and mysterious action, something not altogether trustworthy like all natural forces which, for us, work in the dark because of our imperfect comprehension.
If women were not a force of nature, blind in its strength and capricious in its power, they would not be mistrusted.

As it is one can't help it.
You will say that this force having been in the person of Flora de Barral captured by Anthony.

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