“That makes no sense,” I said.
“This is the Victorian era,” she said. “Women didn’t have to make sense.”

— Connie Willis, book To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 17 (p. 297)

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“That makes no sense,” I said.
“This is the Victorian era,” she said. “Women didn’t have to make sense.”