Amy's loyalty to her mistress is evident from the beginning of the novel when we are also told by Roxana herself that Amy is as "faithful to [her], as the Skin on [her] Back"(25). Amy proves this when she says: "if I will starve for your sake, I will be a Whore, or any thing, for your sake; why I would die for you, if I were put to it" (28). This is proven true over the course of the novel, but immediately after those words are spoken, our narrator denies that Amy should be a whore for her. Later in the novel, however, Roxana takes Amy up on this offer, and excercises her power as a mistress to abuse Amy's loyalty by forcing her to sleep with the Landlord. Roxana tells us:
Nay, You Whore, says I, you said, if I would put you to-Bed, you wou'd with all your Heart: and with that, I sat her down, pull'd off her Stockings and Shooes, and her Cloaths, Piece by Piece, and led her to the Bed to him: [...] She pull'd back a little[...] and then I threw open the Bed, and thrust her in (46).
The reader later learns that Roxana's reasoning for this is that she wants Amy to be equal to her that is, equally as horrible. She says to Amy: " A Whore![...] am I not a Whore as well as you?" (47)....
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