Here, in this enclosed court yard, women slaves would be let out periodically from the unsanitary dark dungeons, less for their well-being than to give the governor an opportunity to gawp at their nakedness and select the one he would have brought to his quarters to be raped that night.

Here, in this enclosed court yard, women slaves would be let out periodically from the unsanitary dark dungeons, less for their well-being than to give the governor an opportunity to gawp at their nakedness and select the one he would have brought to his quarters to be raped that night.