Big Western auction houses, often pilloried for enabling sales to anonymous billionaires, demand the same sort of provenance assurances as they do for fine art and antiquities.
Derided by some (Piers Morgan pilloried Greggs for being " pc-ravaged clowns" ) the company said the publicity had boosted sales of its other " iconic sausage rolls" and food.
If a man had delivered the same message or even gently pointed out that women might be taking actions that limited their options, he would have been pilloried.
For Hetty looked out from her secret misery towards the possibility of their ever knowing what had happened, as the sick and weary prisoner might think of the possible pillory.