This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between Caio and Caio's wife . Caio tells his wife that he's going to have to go to the harem to get justice for his daughter. He's not going to let Caio get away with it, he tells her, because women have always been at war with one another. He tells Caio that he can't use him as a tool for justice, since he'll have to pay for his mistake. He says that he won't force Caio to do anything, but that if Caio slaps him ten times before him, they're going to call it a slap, and they'll slap him