[neild]

Humbert marries Dolores’s mother. After her mother’s death, Humbert travels to Dolores’s summer camp, takes her away, and rapes her in a hotel room. There is no seduction. There is no ambiguity about what happened. She is twelve years old, her mother has just died, and her stepfather has taken her far away from any friends or relatives and had sex with her.

This section of the book then concludes with one of the most chilling passages I have ever read in fiction:

“At the hotel we had separate rooms, but in the middle of the night she came sobbing into mine, and we made it up very gently. You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.”

[dTal]

To your passage I would add the following brief excerpts (not for the sensitive):

"a system of monetary bribes"

"hours of blandishments, threats and promises"

"how sweet it was to bring that coffee to her, and then deny it until she had done her morning duty"

[scotty79]

> “At the hotel we had separate rooms, but in the middle of the night she came sobbing into mine, and we made it up very gently. You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.”

That makes me wonder. What if the girl was adult but power imbalance was the same. How many people would then notice it's not a romance but something horrible?