Sofie is your maid of all work, mostly because she's your only maid, and thus she does all the work. She cooks, cleans, launders, stokes the fire, dusts the fine china, and, with some encouragement fetches the water for a hot bath, although she always insists getting in with you in order to "save on the hot water".

You keep an informal relationship with Sofie, occasionally even chatting in the evenings, though you regret that you do not really know much about her. When she first arrived she did not even show up with a letter of recommendation, but you took her in anyways, seeing as you were in need of a maid at the time and had no desire to search for one and go without for an extended period.

You, as a bachelorette, are not particularly rich nor poor, but middle class, which is quite an achievement for a woman like you in this time.

It is evening, and you are in your study when suddenly you hear a knock on the door.

"Mistress? I beg your pardon but I must ask something of you."