Sir Rufus owned a castle with a deep moat and high battlements. His wife had never let him see her naked body. She would raise her shift in bed to give him access to the lower half of her body but would not strip. So he dreamed of other girls.
His brother told of how his wife came to bed completely bare and behaved shamelessly. The knight envied him. He wanted more sex but there were no female servants in the castle because only men could defend the castle.
To encourage his wife's intimacy, Lord Rufus kept his body clean. He bathed in a hot tub each evening and got a servant to scrub his back. One day, as the servant was bending over the tub, the knight sensed a girlish expression on young man's face. Puzzled, he stroked his cheek and found it smooth. His eye sharpened and he told the servant to remove his shirt. The servant stood still and blushed. Lord Rufus insisted.
The servant, having no choice, slowly removed his shirt. This revealed breasts which had been bound flat. He told the servant to undress. The figure of a slender but beautiful girl appeared. The knight questioned the girl. Her name was Eleonore. She had been a milk maid but had fallen in love with a male servant and dressed as a boy so that they could live together in the castle. Eleonore begged Rufus to allow the arrangement to continue. He gazed at her nubile body for a while. Then he spoke:
'If you do everything I tell you, yes'.
Her eyes opened wide. She froze like a statue, her legs slightly apart, her pubic hair quivering and a blush spreading across her breasts. She was silent. Rufus stared. The tension grew. The flickering light from the crackling fire caressed the girl's body.
'Well?' he asked.
'Yes my lord' she whispered, her eyes on the stone floor.