You’d know that if you’d studied something useful like engineering instead of, what is it this year, Down With Dead White Males, or whatever they cal… - Margaret Ball

“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.

Allie decided that she didn’t understand anything that was going on and didn’t really care. Especially if the sequence of events ended in a hot bath.

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 happened in war, of course; they were regrettable but necessary. But one preferred not to experience them at first hand.