I also had the distinguished honor to be the stake in some such game, and that because--indirectly because--I had won the enmity, the suspicions at least--well, we will say, of persons high in authority in this land." "But, my dear young lady, the conditions can not have been the same.

Assuredly the result was not the same!" "By whose credit, then?
Who thinks of a woman?
Who is there whose hand is not raised against her?
Each member of her own sex is her enemy.

Each member of the opposite sex is her foe.

One breath, one suspicion, and she becomes fair game, even under the strictest code among men; and then, the man who did not dare would be despised because he would not dare.

Her life is one long war against suspicion.