Chapter Eight
Thus it came to pass that Katherine soon fell into a comfortable routine in her great ancestral home.
Every morning her faithful chambermaids, the naughty Marie and Celeste, attended to her personal needs. They woke her, bathed her, and dressed her—and, perhaps more importantly, considering the excitable and passionate nature of their young mistress, they pleasured her. Those sweet, shapely girls knew precisely the secret bliss which a girl of Katherine’s sensitive temperament might truly crave yet dare not request of another, and though they feigned coyness, they never hesitated to give Katherine’s supple body a morning workout whose intimate exertions left her sweaty and breathless and sated. And when they were done, they smiled most prettily, curtsied, and pretended that
