"Then you approved of the way that lieutenant used his rank to force himself on a defenseless woman?"
"Two men against one defenseless woman seems like lousy odds for me."
These are defenseless women who have fallen through the net.
"No, you attack defenseless women and call yourself a man."
"A young woman alone and defenseless in the middle of the night!"
And a man who would take what he wanted without any scruples, even if his victim was a defenseless woman!
But why would any guy want to rape a defenseless woman?
More than once, during the War, he'd seen what could happen to a defenseless woman.
Look how she fights to protect her son's interests now, and she's only a defenseless woman.
A priest such as the one who tore the heart from a defenseless woman?