No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness. Dorothy reminded herself of what she'd learned during a university course on feminist history (with a strong Marxist slant): spinsters are a threat to patriarchy.

Death strips all men of dignity.

Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse.

Living is a hazardous profession.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival.

Trust is won not given.