How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
The rat's real plan was, in a way, more simple and more terrible. He intended to take the princess to the deepest, darkest part of the dungeon. He intended to have Mig put chains on the princess's hands and her feet, and he intended to keep the glittering, glowing, laughing princess there in the dark.
Forever. (36.25-26)
Roscuro's behavior is the most deceitful of any character What turned this rat, who longed for light and a better light, into a such a cruel deceiver?
Quote #8
"Do you know me, Princess?"
"No," she said, lowering her head, "I don't know you."
But, reader, she did know him. He was the rat who had fallen in her mother's soup. And he was wearing her dead mother's spoon on his head! The princess kept her head down. (37.28-30)
This honest and gracious princess lies to Roscuro. Why? We know she was freaked out when she recognized him; Roscuro knows that the sight of him must be very, very painful for her. Maybe she doesn't want to give him the satisfaction.
Quote #9
"And more foul play. Gregory dead!" shouted Cook. "Poor old man, that rope of his broken by who knows what and him lost in the dark and frightened to death because of it. It's too much." (39.5)
Roscuro knows that Gregory has way too much experience with troublesome rats to believe any of Roscuro's lies, and so he gets rid of the man altogether.