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But now I must wonder if Addison Steele had abandoned the Lady Dorna of Tharna and her possible colleague, and had joined Bruno of Torcadino, or if he was feigning the service of each, thus betraying both. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 29, Sentence #63)

It seemed so cruel and uncalled for. I did not care for the haughty Adraste, but I had no wish for her to be suspended naked in a dangling cage in Ar's Street of Coins, perhaps for years, as a testimonial to a sure and implacable justice and a warning to any who might otherwise be tempted to follow her embezzling example. How could Addison Steele be involved in so ugly, unworthy, and perhaps dishonorable, a project? How wrong I had been about him! And how I longed nonetheless for his touch, and the clasp of his arms! I must dismiss him from my mind! I would do so! I must! But Bruno of Torcadino, too, I was sure, despite his tales of a fictive Felitia Thaliana of Besnit, wished to acquire the former Lady Julia Leta of Ar, and obtain some reward contingent on her delivery to Ar. But now I must wonder if Addison Steele had abandoned the Lady Dorna of Tharna and her possible colleague, and had joined Bruno of Torcadino, or if he was feigning the service of each, thus betraying both. It did not seem likely to me that Bruno of Torcadino and the Lady Dorna of Tharna, and her possible colleague, would join forces. Each I suspected would be inimical to the other, easily to the point of knives and poison. And, in either case, if serving one and betraying the other, I feared that the life of Addison Steele might be in dire peril. - (Quarry of Gor)