| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | 182 | View more quotes about instantly">Instantly, without really thinking, and not really understanding, at least for the first instant, why she did what she did, Ellen went to the first obeisance position. |
| 16 | 183 | It was, you see, a matter of an instant response, one consequent on her training. |
| 16 | 184 | She heard the girl to her right laugh. |
| 16 | 185 | Ellen was going to break position angrily, and speak crossly to the girl, thinking herself the victim of a joke, when it occurred to her that the "Man" command might have been appropriately motivated. |
| 16 | 186 | She looked, subtly, to her right and left and found the others girls, too, in first obeisance position. |
| 16 | 187 | She therefore remained as she was. |
| 16 | 188 | Perhaps the girl to her right had had her joke, but, too, it was not impossible that, in the joke, the girl had had her best interests in mind. |