In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

