Answer:
The complete excerpt would be:
I began to realize that I should have resisted, should have refused
to let Fowler bring me out here where only other slaves could see
what happened to me. Now it was too late. It was going to be a grim
day.
Here, it is possible to see how Dana`s desires to escape give her the impulse for a really bad decision to try to escape, and between these lines it is evident that she regrets about such bad decision.
Explanation:
This excerpt belongs to the North American novel Kindred written by the author Octavia Butler who is mainly inspired by travels in time and a slavery way of life. Kindred is a story that focus on the importance of the African-American women in the XX century as a legacy for the modern cultures; taking into account really sensible topics such as equality, power, race, gender, status within society. Besides, it also takes into account the interpersonal relationships that may also occur between individuals with different characteristics or positions within society.