An anonymous, luxurious and long established Gentlemen's club serves the elite of the ruling class of England, those that answer only to each other, and the young Queen Victoria (should she ever interest herself in their affairs). It lies on an island far from any coast, and thus far from the rule of any law other than the gentlemen's.
Its panelled rooms are provided with the finest food that their gardens and the mainland can provide, good wine and brandy from nearby France, and a retinue of servants who are grateful to be saved from the ranks of convicts sentenced to a short and brutal life in the Colonies. And from the same source, the gentlemen select women who think it on balance better to agree to serve the gentlemen, and accept the certaintly of suffering under their hands, against an uncertain, short and brutal life in the New World, should they even survive the voyage there.
For the club caters for those gentlemen bonded together by their shared enjoyment in inflicting pain and suffering on these women, and this has been the way of the club for so long that the degradation of these women has become accepted, and unremarkable, and the gentlemen's brutality consequently careless and severe.
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