Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

I don't see what contribution, if any, she's going to be able to make in that case.

Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.