It was one long scene of unrelieved misery; not the sort of thing a man of his position should ever be subjected to. One knew that these things happe… - Margaret Ball

Well, that was interesting. The question she really wanted to ask was, How come you people take all this so seriously? But that wasn’t in the book.

At least some of the techniques she’d learned at Valley View still worked. If you talked nonsense long enough and looked like being a major interruption to the day’s work, they would send you on to somebody else. And when they ran out of somebody elses to send you to, the last one would sign whatever it was needed signing just to get you to go away.

“You tried to warn me about Aigar. All of you did. And I didn’t want to believe you.”
“Loyalty is no crime,” Domerc said gently.
“Totally idiotic, unreasoning loyalty is. Or ought to be,” Allie said.