Short-response prompt\"Don't you think perhaps\" she began.

Read the following passage from Katherine Mansfield's \"The Daughters of the Late Colonel\":She went over to where Josephine was standing. She wanted to say something to Josephine, something frightfully important, aboutabout the future and what...

But Josephine interrupted her. \"I was wondering if now\" she murmured. They stopped; they waited for each other.

\"Go on, Con,\" said Josephine.

\"No, no, Jug, after you,\" said Constantia.

\"No, say what you were going to say. You began,\" said Josephine.

\"I... I'd rather hear what you were going to say first,\" said Constantia.

What feminist message does the author develop in this passage? How does she use stylistic and rhetorical devices such as characterization, point of view, and dialogue in order to develop that message? Support your ideas with specific evidence from the text.