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Of course, I would have stolen the candy, if such might have been accomplished with impunity. - (Conspirators of Gor, Chapter 18, Sentence #1077)

I recalled both Astrinax and Menon had thought I would be a good buy for such a place, a girl willing to wheedle and smile, to pretend to emotions of excitement and enthusiasm, one who could adroitly feign dismay and sympathy, one who would ply customers with drink, urge them to remain at the tables, encourage them to recklessness in wagering, though it might lead to the loss of estates and honor, to shame, vagrancy, and destitution. But surely they must realize that I was in a collar, that I had no choice in such matters! Did they want me to do such things poorly? Such duties were easy, and silken. Did they want me to risk the fields, the laundries, the public kitchens, the stables, the mills? And I remembered the test of the candy. Of course, I would have stolen the candy, if such might have been accomplished with impunity. What intelligent girl with her wits about her would have forgone such an opportunity? What rational girl, in the conjectured circumstances, would not have done so? And Astrinax had doubtless brought he in whose charge I was, Master Desmond, into fee! "Put your head to the dirt," said Master Desmond. "Keep it there for ten Ehn, and then you may rise, and do as you wish". He had not even seen fit to assign me a duty! As I knelt so, different people passed me, Jane and Eve, with their buckets, and one or two of the free men. - (Conspirators of Gor)