The predicament of 20-year-old, smart, beautiful Sophy Viner at her first job:
"The too-pressing attentions of [her employer's] valet had caused her to fly this sheltered spot, against the express advice of her educational superiors, who implied that, in their own case, refinement and self-respect had always sufficed to keep the most ungovernable passions at bay."
The Reef, novel by Edith Wharton, 1912, chapter 3