Story: Professor Janice Sinclair Gets a New Maid. Chapter 5.

By Jackie J

Hurried into the kitchen by Miss Drummond, Janice stood by the large table in the centre of the room dressed in her drab maid’s tunic, her fingers fiddling nervously with her bibbed apron. She looked at Miss Drummond, who was wearing one of Janice’s most expensive dresses and Italian shoes.

Miss Drummond held up the second document, the indenture that Professor Sinclair had signed in her haste, and smiled, seeing a look of concern creep over the professor’s face.

“You are right to be concerned, girl. This is your bond I hold here, all the contents of your safe, which is basically everything you own.”

“Should you fail to comply fully with my training or you or disobey me, your Mistress, you will forfeit your bond.”

“So, I feel this is a good time to reprise your position in this household, Professor, so we are both clear.”

“Your name is?”

“Janice, Mistress”

“And you position here, girl?”

“I am your maid, Mistress.”

And how do you feel about being the maid in this, your MISTRESS'S HOME?

Janice. hearing Miss Drummond call Janice’s home her own but, now fearful of retribution and losing her bond, did not contradict her, accepting that not only did her maid now owned her, but also everything she had owned was now under her control.

“I am happy to be a maid to my Mistress, in her home.”

Miss Drummond smiled.

“One last thing before you go back to your quarters. Whilst you still held rank and privilege in this household, before you begged me to become my indentured maid, Professor Sinclair asked for the maid to be punished, is that correct?

Janice meekly nodded, starting to realise that Miss Drummond had manipulated her into enslavement. There was nothing ambiguous in the training agreement and now certified and signed into indenture, she was owned by her own maid and under her maid’s total control.

Miss Drummond demanded a verbal response: “Speak, girl!”

“Yes, Mistress. Professor Sinclair asked for the maid to be punished.”

Miss Drummond allowed a wicked grin to build across her face.

“Well, I am sure Professor Janice Sinclair would be very pleased with the punishment that I have selected for the maid.”

“I cannot possibly have the maid of my household carry the same name as a Professor now, can I? 

The punishment that Professor Sinclair asked for will be that you are no longer to carry the name of Janice Sinclair. Your name during your training will be Paula.”

Paula was not a random name, it was already written on the original maid training contract. The name of the maid sponsored to be trained by Professor Sinclair.

“Now step forward and sign your new name on this maid’s register for my training school, both forms.”

Janice looked at Miss Drummond, knowing her situation was now hopeless. All she could hope for was that she can get through the maid's training and regain her wealth, position and now, even her name. Until then she is to be Paula, her maid’s maid.

Professor Sinclair shuffled forward and signed the maids register in the name of Paula and unknowingly a deed poll form that will have her name permanently changed to Paula Simms.

Paula Simms, a common girl, accepted into Miss Drummond's Maid School sponsored by none other than Professor Janice Sinclair. All of it was legal and detailed on the previous forms. An identity loop from which there could be no escape. The only release would be for Professor Sinclair herself to come forward and free the maid Paula Simms from her indenture. Something that Miss Drummond would ensure could never happen.

And so began months of constant humiliation for the once proud professor. Worked hard in her restrictive garb, she learned her new skills and the drudgery of her position being a domestic maid to her demanding Mistress in the seclusion of her own home.

Any failings were ridiculed and she was regularly belittled and punished by her Mistress, a Mistress who now enjoyed the comforts of Professor Sinclair’s home and wealth.

Within only a few weeks of becoming an indentured maid, Professor Sinclair was readily and meekly answering to her new name of Paula. Punishments included having had her hair cut short, regular spankings and strappings, all designed to break the spirit and confidence of Miss Drummond’s latest maid which was well on the way to being accomplished.

At every opportunity Professor Sinclair was referred to in the third person by the scheming and manipulative Miss Drummond. The persona of Paula and the professor slowly and surely diverged, becoming separated until the life of Professor Sinclair became more and more distant to the hapless and increasingly timid maid Paula.

Having painfully learned the skills of dressmaking, Miss Drummond knew that Paula’s spirit was completely broken when, watched over by her Mistress, a humbled Paula quite skilfully adjusted the wardrobe of Professor Sinclair to a more comfortable fit for her Mistress. She would not be, or indeed held any thoughts now of, wearing her expensive dresses and gowns again, they were for the Mistress of the household, not a common maid.

Many changes had taken place in the household.

All conversation and written matter within the house, being in the native Hungarian language of Miss Drummond, Paula was made to constantly feel stupid and inadequate because she could no longer follow simple written and verbal instructions.

Deprived of any stimulation, her vocabulary was restricted to "thank you, Miss" and "yes, Miss". Slapped and spanked should she dare to speak otherwise, Paula was now nothing more than the simple obedient maid she had become at the hands of Miss Drummond, her Mistress.

The self-confidence exuded by Professor Janice Sinclair had been chastised and spanked from the humble girl who now served her mistress with a tentative nervousness indicative of a submissive and subjugated domestic maid. For that is what had become of Professor Janice Sinclair, now an intellectual shadow of her former self.

A second summer had melted away and the chill of the fall had once again begun to cascade leaves from the trees.

It had been eighteen months since an exuberant highly educated Professor Janice Sinclair had signed herself into the clutches of Miss Patricia Drummond and it was to be a special day for Paula. Miss Drummond smiled when her obedient maid entered and curtsied before her. Paula having learned not to look directly at her Mistress, her head remained lowered.

“Yes, Mistress.”

“Paula, I have some visitors who would like to meet you.”

Two of the governors, one of them Lady Cockcroft, who had never agreed with a woman, let alone a girl being the head of any department at her school, and three house masters from Castanbury Girls College stood and smirked watching their once prim and proper arrogant head of science trooped into the study in her old-style maid's uniform, her luscious locks shorn beneath a lacy cap as she meekly performed a curtsy for her mistress.

Miss Drummond stood up and lifted Paula’s chin.

“Well, Lady Cockcroft, gentlemen, this is Paula. Professor Sinclair placed her in my care to be trained to become a domestic servant."

Miss Drummond handed over the signed indenture, basically the ownership of Maid Paula, to Lady Cockcroft.

“She is yours to do with as you wish now, Lady Cockcroft. And like we agreed, she is ready to be a maid at your college to look after your girls' and the staff accommodation."

Lady Cockcroft smiled and chuckled taking the indenture.

“How thoughtful of the Professor. Paula will be just perfect for the role.”

Miss Drummond took her payment from Lady Cockcroft before clapping her hands, a signal ingrained into Paula’s empty mind that an instruction is about to follow.

“Sherry for my guests, Paula.”

Paula dropped a curtsy.

“Yes, Miss. Thank you, Miss.”

Paula left the room to collect the decanter and glasses for her Mistress to the sound of titters and muted laughter from the guests who revelled in the professor’s demise at the hands of Miss Drummond.

Returning with the tray of glasses Paula bobbed a curtsy to each of her Mistress's guests as they took their drinks.

Lady Cockcroft, intrigued by the transformation of Professor Janice Sinclair into the submissive housemaid Paula, stood tall above the stooping servant girl.

“Girl, what is your name and what do you do here?”

Paula dropped a curtsy and spoke in her weak voice: “My Name is Paula, Miss; I am indentured maid to Mistress Drummond."

Lady Cockcroft continued: “But this house belonged to Professor Sinclair, did it not?”

“Yes, Miss, she sponsored me to train to be a Maid. Professor Sinclair is gone. She gave everything to my Mistress, this is Miss Drummond’s home now,” was the humble maid's response.

Lady Cockcroft smirked at the once surly rich girl who was standing meekly before her, now destitute and legally owned by her. She turned back to Miss Drummond.

“Patricia, dear, bring Paula to my Manor house this evening. I am holding a pre-term dinner for all the staff from the school. I think it will be a nice touch if Paula joins my maids to serve at the table. And of course the staff can get to know the new dormitory maid.”

Paula served at the table that evening and a few days after Lady Cockcroft released her to work in the school dormitory during term time. The girls and staff at the college took great pleasure in having the former head of the science department for their domestic skivvy.

Of course, Professor Janice Sinclair never returned to free Maid Paula Simms from her indenture, how could she?

Miss Drummond’s brutal training had taken the articulate bright professor from being a successful professional young woman, but with no domestic skills at all, to being a simple-minded servile maid yet competent in all household duties. There was no official fee for the domestic training but it came at quite a cost. Everything Professor Janice Sinclair owned and everything she was or could have been. Still it was what she wanted, wasn’t it?

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