Story: A Lady?

L.E. shared the beginning of a very promising lady-to-maid story with an enticing and original premise. I am hoping there'll be more to it, love where it's headed!

A Lady?

by L.E.


Sir Ambrose Ruddenmore mounted the steps of Ackleigh House with some trepidation. A past president of the Royal College of Surgeons, he had had plenty of experience explaining matters of medical delicacy, but today was going to be quite unusual.

At the front door of the imposing London mansion, the butler greeted Sir Ambrose and efficiently led him to the salon where the Earl and Countess of Ackleigh awaited him. They were a handsome pair, both blue-eyed with blonde hair barely flecked with grey, narrow noses, slender hands. All four eyes were trained on him.

"Out with it, Sir Ambrose", the Earl said earnestly. "We can't be left on tenterhooks, your office said you had to call on us with news. Have you found a liver donor for Caroline?"

Lady Caroline Grandwood was to the extent they could make her so, the pride and joy of the Earl and Countess, for she was their only child; but she was also the bane of their existence. Most of the prestigious girls' schools in Britain had either expelled her or declined to admit her given her reputation, and she had lasted barely half a term at university before attempts to educate her had at last been abandoned.

Her preferred vocation, her primary talent, was voracious consumption of the most expensive top-shelf tipples, which was why she now needed a liver transplant.