[spoilers] Sir Harry Pearce 2.0

[JHyde]

There's a comment that he makes in his diary and he uses it in relation to Ruth too were he calls her 'little' as part of explaining how they don't know what they are speaking of. It's a great pity that with Harry he sometimes splits women into those two categories (even Harry!) because you could never see him using that term to describe Tessa or Juliet no matter how pissed off he was with them. I don't wish to imply that he thinks of either his daughter or Ruth as weak (and regular readers will know that nor do I) but it is a belittling turn of phrase. Quite literally.