Jessica seemed pleased with the measures as well, but if she’d manufactured the incident in order to end the relationship between her niece and Louis, her scheme backfired. After a few days of Rebecca’s bondage, it was clear that the master was paying even more attention to the red-haired, pink-cheeked beauty.
The mistress of the house found her niece was getting far too much positive attention. She’d have to act offensively in some way to curtail the girl’s enthusiasm for her plight. In an effort to further humiliate her niece, Jessica found new ways to torment her. She was forced to scrub floors with her hands and feet tied, or serve drinks with her wrists bound, precariously balancing trays on her useless hands. If she failed to accomplish any of her assigned tasks with the same effic
