F. Tuohy, "The trap" (1965)

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Miss Rodzinska was still in the first stage of refugeedom: she thought herself powerful and important through having come from where she did, for having lived the way she had, through those long, hungry winters in which it always seems to be six o’clock on a freezing morning.

She believed the unfortunate could make bullying demands on the fortunate, whoever they were, and was ready to try this out on him.