Binnie cannot forget her past. She remembers all too well, the time she was purchased, yet what she recalls most is the love she felt in being set free from this confusing genre of rituals and courtship ...not being subjected to what these women so freely seem eager to employ in. While at first feeling she'd been purchased as a mere commodity, she later felt that, in truth, her freedom had been purchased.

These other women seem all too eager to enjoy the commodity of presenting themselves, and trying to put forth their fine qualities as admirable selling points.