Or could it have been that in December 1988, even in such apermissive time and place, Daphne suspected that she had somehow managed to cross a forbidden line into a social or cultural or family territory that was taboo?
Although firms have probably become more permissive since, a survey by Robert Half Technology, a recruitment agency, found in 2009 that more than half of chief information officers in America blocked the use of sites such as Facebook at work.
On a recurring basis, some young recruits, stunned by stress or by the recognition that they have stepped from the comforts of home and apermissive society into the Spartan ranks of an organization that exists to fight the nation's enemies, have been known to admit to anything to gain discharge.