Ermintrüde really loved her bequeathed pearls and simply couldn't bear to cast them before the swine...

Her over-religious, obsessive and cruel father had demanded that she follow his orders and throw away her jewels. This time, she would disobey the twisted man and hide the beautiful pearls her grandmother had left her in the chicken coop just across the yard from the pigsty. She'd purposely walked through the filthy pigsty to get her pretty silken shoes dirty to give the impression that she'd followed her dad's instructions. How she laughed inside, knowing she disobeyed the man she'd grown to detest more and more each passing day. Luckily, she was weeks away from being 18 and was secretly planning to elope with her handsome beau. Stephan was the handyman and butler at the big posh house in the next village...