Her story I was to learn.

She was not of the class from whence Salvolio found the dancers who from time to time came up to the palace for his amusement and the amusement of his guests.

She was the daughter of a Turkish merchant of Scutari who had been received into the Catholic Church.
"Her father had gone down to Durazzo during the first Balkan war and then Salvolio had seen the girl unknown to her parent, and there had been some rough kind of courtship which ended in her running away on this very day and joining her ill-favoured lover at the palazzo.

I tell you this because the fact had some bearing on my own fate.
"As I say, the girl was frightened and made as though to go from the dungeon.

She was probably scared both by the unkempt prisoner and by the drunken man at her side.