Isn't It Time to Stand Up to Philip?

"I just didn't have the energy to stand up to him. It was, as i said before, step by step, each time getting deeper into this, this farce," she says. Jane had finally spoken up at the cafe, had stood up to philip, but he refused to acknowledge what she had done. He acted as if she had said nothing. She found a seat in a row of folding chairs clos to the stage. In front of her were a set of wooden bleachers where the graduates would soon take their places....