Wellbeing
It’s late evening and it’s raining heavily. The head-in-the-wall footslave is having great difficulty in cleaning his customer’s dirty sneakers – not so much because of the inclement weather, but because he is mesmerised and bewitched by the lines of thick, ribbed stitching in her dark brown, cotton anklesocks.
Note how the customer-mistress does not converse with the slave. That’s because he is, quite literally, beneath her. Furthermore, she leaves the public humble head to get soaked in the rain, whilst continuing to protect her own pretty head from the elements with her umbrella.
She clearly has no regard for the slave’s wellbeing – and quite right too. Her own wellbeing is all that matters.