( more jarring if she had less experience with the idea or the sort of people who hold such ideals in so many words— as it is, the segue seems natural enough to petrana that it doesn't throw her.

shame, in her experience, often drives one to require such a framework. fear, even, of what one might do without it. it is not nearly often questioned enough: what might I do with it? )

Allow me to offer you a different perspective, ( she says, then, ) that to grasp for honour is not the problem you are addressing, but the way you had feared shame.