This is how some men might talk - if women would let them.

But the old woman had not let it go at that.

She told me Indian women never let a man see anything.

The woman he'd met there at his last visit let him in.

The woman who ran the hotel would not let me pay the bill.

The woman never let me get away with anything just 'cause I was blind.

But why had the woman let her know that she knew?

He had wanted to continue the relationship but the woman wouldn't let him.

We knocked at the door, and a woman let us in.

The black woman let him get a few yards further down the road, and then she said, "Hold on!"