- Contessa Maria Alcharisi: It is a talent to love. I lacked it, and I know very well what love makes of men and women. It is subjection. I was never willingly subject to any man. Men have been subject to me.
- Lady Mallinger: It is a talent to love. I lacked it, and I know very well what love makes of men and women. It is subjection. I was never willingly subject to any man. Men have been subject to me.