I'm running through a desert, lumbering gray things in pursuit. Claws catch in the hem of my dress and I fall headlong. The inhuman beasts shred my clothes and their huge distorted hands seize my wrists and ankles. They lift me, splaying my limbs, and the most monstrous giant stabs its huge phallus deep--
Aaaaaahhh!!!
I awake with a cry, flailing at the air. Where am I? Who is this ageing man propped up on his elbow looking at me? This isn't my bedroom! What's going on?
Memories flood back: yesterday I gave myself to Theodore Long. He's ready to grant my husband a contract that will make our fortune, but the price is my serving as his plaything.
I must discipline myself to be pleasing to him, so I smile. "Good morning, sir."
"Hello Arabella. Coffee?"
"Yes please, sir."
He presses a button on a bedside table, after which he starts toying with my nipples. Sexual contact before breakfast -- indeed, before dinner -- is new to me, but I smile as compliantly as I can.
The three girls I saw yesterday in servants' uniforms enter, and I jump in shock at how they're now dressed: bra, panties and stockings. Only the black girl has the apron from her maid's uniform over the top of this, and she carries a tray with a pot. The aroma of coffee spreads as she fills one of the two cups. Only one? She hands it to her employer, then returns to the other two standing by the far wall.
All three girls strip off everything except their stockings. They get to keep something on, while I'm completely nude. And it's horribly obvious what he wants from me next.
I have no more interest in female flesh than male. But dating men and then marrying one, reassuringly normal behavior, at least brought the comfort of social acceptance. I've never considered dalliance with a woman because it offered me neither wealth nor status. Now that lesbianism looms, it's worse than servicing a man because I'm unaccustomed to it.
And they're domestics, the bottom of the social scale, scarcely better than addicts who sleep on the streets. Until now I've only been with men of substance, whose status was some compensation. To be pawed by a woman of the lowest classes --
ughhh!