[…] women, by and large, do not like themselves very much: their ambition gaps, their orgasm gaps, their imposter syndrome, […] their trainwrecks, and their need for trainwrecks; the enduring, self-loathing need to find someone about whom they can say well, at least I'm not that girl.

So, you appear to approve of the treatment the young one was getting from the old fartbag.

Her book has, perhaps, been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart […]

Nobles of the marquisdom of Saluce. — Holinshed.