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So I’m guessing the king isn’t as uptight about his concubines getting touched and/or looked at in the buff as he is about the queen.
The Queen is the Queen but a concubine is just a concubine.
Wasn’t it the Queen who said that if she was touched or looked at there’d be drastic consequences? She may have been lying, or stating the official view.
Going by what was happening just before they were abducted, is Lucy’s character quite as much of a “virtuous country girl” as she keeps insisting she is? Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
I think her character is being deliberately emphatic for the King’s benefit.