Chapter Two
With breakfast served and eaten, I was instructed to clear down and wash up; I set to with a slaves will, whilst the girls retired to the lounge. Closing the door behind them I noted. If I had every had any doubt as to my role in this household them closing that door had settled it for me.
I stood at the sink looking out over the wall and across the expanse of fields and hedges, to the distant forest of trees beyond. They looked very old to me as though they had been living out there for centuries, they probably had I realised. Their presence was something else, which also put me firmly in my place within the scheme of things. I let my mind wander across many pathways, which though it didn’t achieve much in its own right, certainly passed my time doing the washing up. Admitt
