meeting that she recounted how he had chased her around the house when no
one else was there. Yet she cast his assaults as the acts of a crazy man, muting
both the seriousness of his abuse and the severity of her conde~nna t ionM.~a~ny
others who similarly acknowledged their employers' past improprieties emphasized
the exceptional nature of these experiences. These stories were not
part of family lore, nor topics for humor or moral instruction; few of the children
or grandchildren appeared to know anything of them.