This chapter's epigraph comes from the novel's opening line, "Lady brigand and's gentleman" . It's a quote from the play's first chapter, which was written by the same author as this chapter. In other words, it's an epigraph from a play about a woman who is raped and murdered. The epigraph in this case is a sample of an arrow that was used in the murder of a young woman. This is the same sample of the same arrow that the young woman was carrying when she ran into the spy's camp. The young woman is shot in the arm, but she manages to escape before she is killed.