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Then where are our relatives? My father? Our family friends? You claim the rights of a mother: the right to call me fool and child; to speak to me as no woman in authority over me at college dare speak to me; to dictate my way of life; and to force on me the acquaintance of a brute whom anyone can see to be the most vicious sort of Lodon man about town. Before I give myself the trouble to resist such claims, I may as well find out whether they have any real existence.

Questions:

A. From which work is this quotation taken?

B. Which character is speaking?

C. What does this work expose?