"I can't leave because the Master won't let me," she said low. "One of the other girls disappeared and I think he had something to do with it. I am scared." It was the first time she had spoken up about it, really. "All of us are frightened of him, even the Madame. He tried to make an example of another girl by cutting off her finger, though she managed to get away before that, but was cast out in nothing but her underthings."