Chapter Fourteen: The SwitchThe irate and humiliated footman and the luckless maid stood in the pantry and examined the evidence. There was almost a handful of straw on the footman's tray that had appeared spontaneously on the route taken to the court yard by the revolting Duchess and her inebriate husband.
It was completely beyond him to imagine what nature of practice the Duchess may indulge in that involved secreting animal fodder in her undergarments and he was very glad about this. This however did not detract from the fact that he had decided that whatever practice this might be it was almost certainly highly amoral and the fact that he and the luckless maid were being forced to clear up after it was making him very irritated indeed.
The debauched Frisian upper classes were bad eno
