Should there have been alarms set off at the door? Or weeping women in sackcloth crying unclean, unclean?
[Just one drink too many. The exaggerated act is a defensive measure, though it would take knowing Prior to know that. He pulls on roles like other people pull on armour.]
Yes, I managed to get in. It's not quite my first time among the courtyards of the courtesans, you realise. I've had friends ply the trade.
[There is a time, it seems, in enough people's youth, when it seems like easy money. Or easier money, to fill a particular need. Even just the quickest answer to a desperate question. Prior's never had a high moral objection to the oldest profession, far from it. But there are more complex associations for him now.
He follows John's gesture, taking the invitation to look again at the room.]
And I suppose it has its charm. At least I know I'm less likely to be kept here against my will, or if I were, I'd be tied to the bed with something more interesting than an IV.
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[Just one drink too many. The exaggerated act is a defensive measure, though it would take knowing Prior to know that. He pulls on roles like other people pull on armour.]
Yes, I managed to get in. It's not quite my first time among the courtyards of the courtesans, you realise. I've had friends ply the trade.
[There is a time, it seems, in enough people's youth, when it seems like easy money. Or easier money, to fill a particular need. Even just the quickest answer to a desperate question. Prior's never had a high moral objection to the oldest profession, far from it. But there are more complex associations for him now.
He follows John's gesture, taking the invitation to look again at the room.]
And I suppose it has its charm. At least I know I'm less likely to be kept here against my will, or if I were, I'd be tied to the bed with something more interesting than an IV.