"Of course I know what it is. It is a rushing of all the bad blood from my body so that I can produce new and cleaner blood. Our blood is toxic and vile and, from what I have learned, we need to be kept in isolation to avoid the spread of the toxins." Ok, so, everyone was naive about this back in her time. That was what the girls were taught. The menstrual cycle was not a way to rid ones body of eggs which had not been fertilized. She knew nothing of that. For the most part, the science behind that was untouched and unexplained.
"Diapers? That does not sound pleasant." Although, neither really, did plugs. When Angelina opened the boxes and produced samples of both instruments, Helena reached for the small plug-like one. "You want me to.. plug myself up with this? You keep the flow of bad blood inside of your body?" It didn't make any sense!