Beatrice Unchanged in The Changeling

"I'm put now to my cunning: th' effects I know, / If I can now but feign 'em handsomely" (4.3.137-138).

Before Beatrice drinks the liquid from glass M with Diaphanta, and before she must feign the effects the liquid has upon a virgin to fool Alsemero, I did not assume that Beatrice submitted to Deflores, exchanging sex for his silence concerning Alonzo's murder. Beatrice never openly states she has been deflowered by Deflores, nor does she seemingly act differently in Act IV. I would have thought that if she indeed was forced to lose her virginity to the man she despises most in the world, and then afterwards still remains in his control, available for use as the object of any creepy and or sexual whim he so desires, Beatrice would reveal this suffering in her countenance and language. Yet she doesn't seem down-trodden nor does she appear to be trying to do anything to get herself out of the role of Deflores's sex slave. I don't know if I buy the theory briefly mentioned in class, that Beatrice actually enjoyed sex with Deflores, but her demeanor in Act IV certainly does not fit with the horrible situation she finds herself in.