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- I don’t want anybody to undress her or dress
her, or any guards outside our door!
As soon as they were alone he said:
- Catarina, do you recall that slap you gave me at
school? Are you sorry for it now?
- Why should I be sorry? I’ll give you another if
you want!
-You mean you have no regrets?
- Not in the least.
- And you’re not going to apologize?
-Why should I?
- So that’s how it is, is it? Well, I’ll teach you a
lesson!
And he prepared a rope to drop her down a
trapdoor into a pit.
One last time he asked:
- Catarina, either you apologize, or I drop you
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