VICTORIAN CHILDHOOD - EPISODE 6 London, 1885. This is Sarah. She’s 10 years old. And she’s carrying a pot of boiling water three times her weight. Sarah is a scullery maid. Lowest servant in a wealthy household. Her job: Heat water for the family’s baths. Carry it from the basement kitchen up two flights of stairs. Five gallons. Boiling. Multiple trips daily. She’s been working since 6 AM. It’s 8 PM now. Fourteen hours. The pot weighs forty pounds. Sarah weighs fifty. The stairs are narrow. Steep. Completely unlit. She can’t see. Can’t balance. The pot tilts. Boiling water pours down her chest. Her arms. Her legs. She’s screaming. Dropping the pot. The cook finds her collapsed. Burns covering half her body. The family doesn’t call a doctor. Too expensive for a servant. The housekeeper applies butter. Wraps her in rough sheets. Puts her back in the basement. Leaves her there. Three days later, Sarah dies. Infection. Agony. Age ten. The family docks her final week’s wages. Broken copper ...