Well she needs to say something before Keltham starts getting suspicious of how right that was.
"I was thinking that this pattern you keep talking about was the dath ilani equivalent of awful pre-Asmodean books, romance novels, full of, how did you put it, Problematic Messages, about girls who stand around being pretty and conceited until a man decides he's really attracted to her and wants to do all the work of giving her a happy life without her having to be clever about it at all. I'm increasingly confused about what this is instead of that."