Robert grinned. He rather liked women with spirit. It was so very dull to have a conversation with oneself. Well, unless one had had the right amount of opium.
"Very well said, Miss Rochester of Dover! No woman should be without her defenses. Don't see why anyone would want to control their wife- or sister, or cousin, or daughter, or ward for that matter. I suppose it's just stranger to me since I was always given free reign when I was younger. Just had to say, 'Father, I'm going to go to France with my friends!' and he'd give me a purse and tell me not to gamble it all away the first day."