The Phillips are a young couple tied up in a complicated marriage, choosing to keep living as if no one could see it. Obvious to everyone including Ophelia Harlot, the new scullery maid employed by Margaret Phillips against her husbands wishes the household exists in a whirlwind of tension the two women can only seem to escape when with each other. What is her husband hiding? What happened in Ophelia's past? To be discovered in this five part short story that will leave you inevitably, enthralled.