Karma And Three-Fold Return

The Golden Slave, XX, p. 245.

We have not quite finished with The Golden Slave. Eodan tries to implicate Flavius in Phyrne's disappearance from Mithradates' court. Flavius ripostes that:

Eodan has laid aside his natural weapons and cannot gain any victory by this "'...womanish trick.'";

there is never luck in demeaning yourself.

Eodan thinks:

"Yes... I have called down evil upon myself and now I must somehow endure what comes."

Buddhist training includes acceptance of consequences. Reverend Wilfrid, who visits our group, told the following story about karma (action and consequences). A guy working in a restaurant steals a bottle of wine, shares it with friends and jokes and boasts about it. Next day at work, the manager says, "I want a word with you." The word that the manager wants may or may not be about the bottle of wine but the first bad consequence for the guy is worry/apprehension.

In my experience:

in general, there are consequences of actions;

one major consequence, although not necessarily the only one, is worry about consequences;

however, there is not always a noticeable consequence of any particular action.

Does anything that Eodan experiences later in the novel look like a consequence of this particular wrong action?