Summary Of Elizabeth Mayfield

A late model sports car with its roof down entered a long winding private road leading to the Barrister Mansion. The driver was Elizabeth Mayfield, a vivacious thirtyish woman with her long dark hair blowing in the wind. She was enjoying the fresh country air and the perfectly aligned mature Japanese Cherry trees on both sides of the road. Yes, her first impression of the 13,000 acres estate was it was beautiful, massive, and very private indeed. The rolling hills were covered with green grass and massive Beech trees were mingled among fields of Hawthorne, Birch, and Elders.

Elizabeth’s trip from London had taken just over an hour. Her interview with Edward William Barrister, a wealthy international shipping magnate, had gone marvelously.
Mayfield, my son is a spoiled brat.”

Elizabeth learned he was about to set out on a two-year-long sales tour around the world during which he would not be home. He explained that he couldn’t leave his son alone with only a female staff of eight who had worked for the family for years. The only male on the staff, an older gentleman, the butler, had resigned. None of them are capable of dealing with Edward, ” he admitted, “and that’s why I’m looking for an experienced governess with a successful background of dealing with difficult boys.”

“I know to handle teenage boys like your son, in fact I only accept assignments with teenage boys because that is my area of expertise, ” she answered.

“I know, ” he said. “your references spoke of you in glowing terms. It seems you do have a knack in turning around difficult boys like Edward.”

“Could you give me a little history of his behavioral problems?”

“His problems started when his mother died when he was thirteen.”

He explained his wife, Lady Barrister, had home schooled Edward until her sudden unexpected death when he was thirteen. He said his son had lived a privileged life, sheltered completely from the outside world. He had never been allowed to venture outside their
Elizabeth had wondered if they might resent her coming right in and having them report to her, but just the opposite happened. None of them wanted to be responsible for young Edward. They all proceeded to express their feelings of frustration with Edward, citing example after example of his troublesome behavior.

Elizabeth shared her “alternative” way of abrupted turning the tables om Edward, turning his world as he had known it, totally upside down.

The unanimous look of smirks on their faces suggested they liked Elizabeth’s thinking, paving the way in their minds to gain their justifiable revenge for his years of disrespecting them and putting up with his crude bad behavior.

“That boy deserves everything he gets and more,” said one of the older female housekeepers. You tell us what you want us to do and we will do it.”

That evening Elizabeth entered Edward’s bedroom and found him in pajamas about to get into bed. Her first impression was he was smaller than she had imagined and he definitely didn’t look like he could be eighteen, more like fourteen she told