She doesn't need me to be fearsome. She always was. My world is less friendly to women than this one, Kitty.

[ The inequality had been ingrained. For d'Artagnan, it still is. It's why he still defaults to thinking that soldiers must be men, even though he's seen proof of the opposite here. ]

Constance did not let that stop her. You'd get along. She would like the way you talk.