I asked him, startled out of my own dilemma by his words.

It was a thought, an idea I had to help you out of your dilemma.

He tried to see some way out of his dilemma but the solution just would not come to him.

There seemed to be no way out of his dilemma.

Was there really no other way out of his dilemma?

I simply do not see any way out of our dilemma.

I began to see one way out of our dilemma.

Like finding a way out of their present dilemma, for instance.

"But that does not help us out of our present dilemma."

Why was she giving him a way out of his dilemma?