It is 1675. I am 18 years old and work as a serving girl at the Earl of Buckleys mansion in the north of England. Every once in a while he hosts a night for a few mates where they drink and play cards. This particular night there were 4 guests and I was chosen as one of the girls to wait on table. It was no secret that the girls for these occasions were picked for their looks and were made to wear low cut dresses which laced tightly at the front and gave you an impressive cleavage. I was supposed to look after the Earl of Hunslet who was only 23 and inherited when his father died suddenly a year ago. It would be my job to take a tray with water and a towel to his room last thing. I'd been warned that could be tricky as drunken guests sometimes tried to take advantage of the maids.
We all gathered in the kitchen and from time to time had to take food and drink to the games room where they were playing cards.
The other girls were teasing me that the young earl had his eye on me.
"He can't keep his eyes off your tits," said my friend Mary.
Old Nellie the cook was more down to earth.
"If he does anything you make sure he pays. Their lordships have to pay a guinea if they take a girls maidenhead. Don't be like that stupid Lizzie Bennett - lovely buxom figure on her, but the Earl of Stutton only paid her 5 shillings."
It was midnight before the guests retired to their rooms and thankfully the young earl wasn't drunk so I hoped there wouldn't be any problems.
I set the tray down on the dressing table and asked if there was anything else he wanted.
In reply the earl turned back the sheets on the bed.