FROM CHAPTER #1:
While M and her maid Marie were sailing to M's fiancΓ© for M to be married to him, their vessel was captured by pirates. The two of them, and the wife of the captain survived, while the pirates killed all men in the vessel crew.
CONTINUATION:
M, Marie, and captain's wife were taken to the deck of the vessel, in front of the cheering crowd of the pirates. With horror, they looked at the dead bodies of the crew members. Captain's wife rushed to the still warm body of her husband, hugging him and crying out loud, which seemed to amuse the pirates a lot.
The captain of the pirates said:
-- Well, that old hag is not worth much. Except as our play toy perhaps. Shark bates we do have by chopping those dead bodies to pieces. But these two other women we can sell to a brothel in our destination port.
M protested:
-- No way! I am maiden going to my wedding, and Marie here is my maid.
-- And there is a good ransom, if we return you untouched? Your maid an untouched maiden as well?
M hesitated, and captain noticed it.
-- Well, I've tried this return for a ransom thing a time or two. Luckily avoided the noose every time, but just with my good luck. A perfect way to get hanged, that is. The simplest way is to sell what you have got. Now, you are saying that you are a virgin?