After the girls had left the castle Lord Robert summoned his Son to the book room saying, �We have been away from our duties for far too long, spending so much time fighting I know I have neglected teaching you how to behave as the future Lord and Master of our Manor�. �Although Yassif is my old friend the time you have spent with him and his slave dealers has corrupted you�. �The birching you gave those girls was excessive, our people might be serfs but they are not slaves to be degraded and whipped just to satisfy your perversions� �If the reason is good I will allow any woman to be stripped and birched or caned on her bare flesh but only with moderate force and never on her breasts or between her legs�. �I have seen women and girls being punished in these places and made unusable so I do not approve of it but the branding of soiled women who offer themselves to their lord goes back generations�. �Other than the initial pain it does them no lasting harm but when they spread open for a man he will see from the scar they have been whores and I see no reason to stop it�

�It has always been the right of the Lord to take the virginity of girls that please him and if they are bleeding allow them to work as maids until they share our bed. In future you are to consult me in all your deeds but I shall not allow you to do any of these things again or take another girls virginity until you prove to me that you are a fit person to enjoy that right. If you are not prepared to accept my ruling, pack your possessions and return to Yassif. �I am sorry I have displeased you father; I have much to learn about the ways of our people and hope with your patience I will learn to be a good lord when my time comes�. �I am most pleased you feel that way my son and I will do my best to teach you,� said his father.

After whipping those girls and seeing Meg laying with her legs raised holding her cunt apart was too much for the son and being so overexcited he only lasted long enough to go deep enough to just take Megs' virginity. This made him quite anxious and to try again the next day he approached one of the maids asking if she would let him see her naked. She could hardly refuse and let him explore the whole of her body but refused to let him enter her. Remembering what his father had said he dared not make any moves to force her to allow him to try again. The other was more willing and after playing with her body he tried to enter but couldn't control himself and yet again came to quick.

The village was buzzing with excitement, Players were coming and everyone was buying their needs before the square was cleared and made ready for the entertainment. On her way home Sally Olden saw Walter and Nora Grinds talking to Beth Barkwell and wishing them good morrow passed bye, but Beth called her back. �I know your daughter Ann went to the Lord a week or so ago. Did she tell you what happened to Ruth Belling�? Why do you ask questioned Sally? �Well, when Ruth went home the whole family left the village the very next day without a word to anyone�.

�I didn't know that, Ann has told me nothing, not even what happened to her. I just accepted the Lord, although now an older man bedded her just as he did with us�. �Then you don't know that Marion Snell and Katie Bond were cruelly birched�. �When Katie returned she went straight to her room, not even speaking to her parents�. �Later that night her father Sam heard her crying and went to her see her�. �She was lying on her face bare to the waist and Sam saw the wheals across her back, but worse, the marks had curled around and cut into her breasts�. �Sam could not get her to tell him why but he did find out from her that Marion Snell had been tied alongside her and the lord's Son had flogged them both�. �Next day Sam went to see Bert Snell who told him Marion also had been birched but she wouldn't tell him why either. We all know the Lord is not bad man so both Bert and Sam went to see him�.