All women who defied the Rules wore the Silencer. They were supposedly simple Rules, too. Celia Burke didn't think so. “Always agree with your man, no matter what you think.” That's the Rule that had gotten Celia fitted with a Silencer. It wasn't her fault the authorities had heard her argument with her husband Nathaniel.

( Proudly, he had declared, Women should be available for sex whenever their husbands want it. )