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And, too, doubtless to enlist my aid, counting on the naivety of a barbarian, he was pretending to search for his quarry to free her and return her to station and family, perhaps even wealth. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 25, Sentence #65)

Who was this supposed Lady Felitia Thaliana, of Besnit? Did she exist? What of the Lady Julia Leta, of Ar? I was sure she existed, both from my interview in the alcove, when I was hooded, and from Adraste herself. In the kitchen, she had literally admitted, however reluctantly, that she was herself the Lady Julia Leta of Ar. For what more could one ask? Clearly Bruno of Torcadino did not want me to know that he was actually in search of the Lady Julia Leta of Ar. And, too, doubtless to enlist my aid, counting on the naivety of a barbarian, he was pretending to search for his quarry to free her and return her to station and family, perhaps even wealth. At one time I might have believed that, but I had learned in Brundisium, and after that, from a thousand other asides and remarks, in the tavern and elsewhere, that Gorean society did not easily ignore the shame and dishonor which would inevitably accrue to a family's name and reputation should it be discovered that a daughter, sister, niece, or such, had been collared. The humiliating stain of slavery was not to be endured. Normally she would be kept as a slave, either in the family's house, or estates, or, more likely, sold out of the city. - (Quarry of Gor)