seianti was yelling - and seianti never swore ; `` what kind of gods-blasted idiot ... '' and one of her girls was trying to calm her , while the lad was looking at tullia with a ghastly abject face , and tullia had grabbed a cloth from one of the girls and was holding it to herself , ostensibly to soak up the wine but just as much to hide her body , too visible through the clinging folds of her wet clothes , from thresu 's avid eyes .