Roger stormed out of the manor and crossed the stable yard shouting,
"JAMES, JAMES, COME HERE YOU NO GOOD LOUT.
James appeared at the door to the stables wondering why Sir Roger was shouting and appeared angry with him.
"Yes Sir, did you want me? Oi've done all me jobs and showed Miss Bea round the gardens loike you said Sir."
"What else did you show her you disgusting boy, she's with my wife now crying her eyes out saying you made improper advances to her, did you try to entice her into a roll in the hay.?"
"No Sir, oi dint, oi ain't touched her 'cept..............." The realization dawned in his eyes,
"Except what? when? where? what did you do to her boy? Out with it, the truth now before I give you a whipping"
"Loike I said Sir, the only toime I touched her was when she slipped on the cobbles and oi caught her, oi made a joke about her throwing herself at me and she just run orf, why would she say oi did summat wrong Sir? Oi loike her Sir, loike her a lot, she's real pretty."
Roger calmed down when he heard James's side of the story but he decided to have a stern word with him anyway.
"Are you sure that's all there was to it? You didn't touch her intimately?"
"No Sir, oi dint, oi swear."
"Very well James I believe you but there's something you should know, Bea is still very young in her ways and naive, she has little or no experience of bold young men, if she can misconstrue a joke into a sexual advance then she will panic and run, I will do my best to repair things or rather my wife will, I suggest that tomorrow you find her, preferably in the company of others and offer your apologies, I am not saying she will accept them but you will have admitted you were in the wrong. One more thing James, I agree with you, she is real pretty."
"JAMES, JAMES, COME HERE YOU NO GOOD LOUT.
James appeared at the door to the stables wondering why Sir Roger was shouting and appeared angry with him.
"Yes Sir, did you want me? Oi've done all me jobs and showed Miss Bea round the gardens loike you said Sir."
"What else did you show her you disgusting boy, she's with my wife now crying her eyes out saying you made improper advances to her, did you try to entice her into a roll in the hay.?"
"No Sir, oi dint, oi ain't touched her 'cept..............." The realization dawned in his eyes,
"Except what? when? where? what did you do to her boy? Out with it, the truth now before I give you a whipping"
"Loike I said Sir, the only toime I touched her was when she slipped on the cobbles and oi caught her, oi made a joke about her throwing herself at me and she just run orf, why would she say oi did summat wrong Sir? Oi loike her Sir, loike her a lot, she's real pretty."
Roger calmed down when he heard James's side of the story but he decided to have a stern word with him anyway.
"Are you sure that's all there was to it? You didn't touch her intimately?"
"No Sir, oi dint, oi swear."
"Very well James I believe you but there's something you should know, Bea is still very young in her ways and naive, she has little or no experience of bold young men, if she can misconstrue a joke into a sexual advance then she will panic and run, I will do my best to repair things or rather my wife will, I suggest that tomorrow you find her, preferably in the company of others and offer your apologies, I am not saying she will accept them but you will have admitted you were in the wrong. One more thing James, I agree with you, she is real pretty."