premise: The Szolds , like the Marches , enjoyed and loved living together , even in troubled <mask> ; and , as in the March home , any young man who called on the Szolds found himself confronted with a phalanx of femininity which made it rather difficult to direct his particular attention to any one of them .
hypothesis: the proper context for <mask> here should be a more or less definite period of time now or previously present