| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 455 | I lay on it for View more quotes about hours">hours, sometimes pounding it in anger, clawing at it with my fingers, biting at it in misery, dampening it with hot tears, squirming on it in misery. |
| 6 | 456 | I had been rejected by Drusus Rencius. |
| 6 | 457 | I had thrown myself at him like a tart, and had been rejected! How could I have done that? Was I only a little tart, or was I a desperate, needful woman, one who had dared to be true to her needs? How I hated him! I was a Tatrix, a Tatrix! He was only a soldier, a mere guard! I had power. |
| 6 | 458 | I could have my vengeance on him! I could tell Ligurious that he had become fresh with me, that he had dared to try to kiss me. |
| 6 | 459 | Surely he might be broken in rank for that, or whipped, or even slain! I wondered why he had not kissed me. |
| 6 | 460 | Was it because I was a Tatrix? But I did not think that that thought, momentous though it might be, would have deterred a man such as Drusus Rencius. |
| 6 | 461 | Was it then because I was not sufficiently attractive? Perhaps. |