| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | 41 | We had View more quotes about become">become, it seemed, less a free woman and a slave, as I viewed us, than two slaves. |
| 23 | 42 | And, if that was so, why should it be I who would be always permitted to act as her arrogant superior, when there was, in effect, little, if anything, to choose between us. |
| 23 | 43 | Did my insolence not need a corrective? Might I not profit from a lesson? Very well. |
| 23 | 44 | Today, it would be I who would wear the leash. |
| 23 | 45 | As you can see, the matter was quite paradoxical. |
| 23 | 46 | On the one hand, as the Lady Constanzia was at least technically a free woman, might I not be reprimanded for having subjected her to certain indignities, my little slave girl's vengeances on a free woman? And, on the other hand, paradoxically, as she was now little other than a slave, might not I, a mere slave, be reprimanded for having treated her in such a way as to suggest that she might be less than I? In any event, today, it would be I who would be leashed. |
| 23 | 47 | "But she may escape, Master!" I had said. |