"The Queen is a much more experienced sadist than I am.  Feeling insecure about whether she could successfully steal you from me, I insist on negotiating a term in our agreement saying that, if your affections start to shift from me towards her, I'm legally entitled to walk out on any current project obligations and take you with me, whether you like that or not, to a country that's okay with my owning you like I own my shirt.  The idea being not so much to plan on doing that, but that in this way Carissa Sevar never thinks in her heart that maybe the Queen has more real power over her than Keltham does."

"The Queen is a much more experienced sadist than I am.  Feeling insecure about whether she could successfully steal you from me, I insist on negotiating a term in our agreement saying that, if your affections shift too far from me towards her, I'm legally entitled to walk out on any current project obligations and take you with me, whether you like that or not, to a country that's okay with my owning you like I own my shirt.  The idea being not so much to plan on doing that, but that in this way Carissa Sevar never thinks in her heart that maybe the Queen has more real power over her than Keltham does."

"The Queen is a much more experienced sadist than I am.  Feeling insecure about whether she could successfully steal you from me, I insist on negotiating a term in our agreement saying that, if your affections shift too far from me towards her, I'm legally entitled to walk out on any current project obligations and take you with me, whether you like that or not, to a country that's okay with my owning you like I own my shirt.  The idea being that in this way Carissa Sevar never thinks in her heart that maybe the Queen has more real power over her than Keltham does."