#12255 - I explained, And after I was whipped mercilessly I escaped in the dead of night. Not for we the struggle to keep food on the table on the pittance farm workers are allowed, no my collar should be white of that was I determined, and for that we should forgo the pleasures of fornication, and naught but kissing and fingers were our relief in the meadows and woodlands and the warmth and darkness of his Lordship's barn till the bugs bit us and we had to scurry away scratching ourselves. No lad I made it all up see, I have no authority over the law what so ever! But I am to marry Lady Katherine, I said, A sham as she is to frail for matrimony.