It is a poor master who gives their servants their own means of escape...!

[and although he laughs it off, still perched on the man's shoulder as he dips his head, it is a little sad.]

I was lucky; there were a number of things I learned by virtue of my closeness to the master's son. A number more I think I got away with because I was viewed... more as an investment. But I should never have learned - my master would never have permitted it, and if he had found out...