| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | 492 | But, View more quotes about happily">happily, the utterance had been no more than a casually generous, almost thoughtless, unbegrudged gift from a superior to an inferior. |
| 11 | 493 | And surely it was. |
| 11 | 494 | For Ellen knew herself as her absolute inferior, as the woman was free, and she, Ellen, was bond. |
| 11 | 495 | Ellen cast a quick, frightened glance at her master but his gaze reassured her that her response had been apt. |
| 11 | 496 | Indeed, she saw, with mixed feelings, that he regarded her as a quick, bright slave. |
| 11 | 497 | She feared that that might put him more on his guard against her. |
| 11 | 498 | But surely he must understand that the intelligence of a woman did not disappear in the searing moment her flesh took the iron, or the instant that her small neck felt clasped upon it a steel band. |