Where/how Victorian-era philanderers would meet their mistresses

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[marfisa]

If your philanderer lives in a rural village, farmers' and shopkeepers' daughters might be more plausible victims than anyone of more or less his own social class. Since shopkeepers presumably lived in town, it would probably be more feasible for a girl from such a household to sneak out of the house at night--or even during the day--for a rendezvous with the rake in question. Although I'm not sure where the couple could actually go to do anything seriously improper, unless the woman sneaked into the wealthy bachelor's house (somehow avoiding being seen by his servants or anyone else) or they did it in some sort of shed or something behind the shop or on the unscrupulous seducer's own property. I suppose the barn could work if the girl was from a farm family, although then the guy would have to surreptitiously ride out of town to the farm, sneak into the barn, and hope that none of the farmhands or family members decided to come back to check on the cows or something once all the animals had been brought in for the night.

I think in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" the title character and her rich douchebag seducer did it outdoors (at Stonehenge or some similar circle of standing stones, in fact--you might want to check out the movie starring Nastassja Kinski, if you don't have time to plow through the Thomas Hardy novel). But that might actually complicate your location problems, since you'd then have to take the weather into account when filming, in addition to having to watch out for and shoo away potential passers-by.