What happens next?

Penny almost becomes a fallen woman

Come on, thought Penny. Surely my hand can't be that stuck. Perhaps if I give it one quick tug. Okay, perhaps if I give two quick tugs. Okay, perhaps if I yank on it really, really hard...

Penny kept trying until -- through some miracle -- her hand finally became loose.

Unfortunately, when she did so, she threw herself off balance. Next thing she knew, she was falling off her little platform and onto the floor.

The only thing that saved her was her collision with a woman who just happened to walk by Penny's platform at the right minute.

Must be one of the maids, Penny thought, as she tried to pry her sticky hand off of the woman's dress.

In fact, it had better be one of the maids that Penny fell upon because if it had been anyone else -- a guest, for example -- the chances were that Penny would be in big trouble.

Then Penny noticed that the dress her impromptu savior was wearing looked way too fancy to be a maid's uniform. And looking down, Penny noticed that the woman she was leaning on wore high heels. Since when did maids wear high heels?

Then Penny looked up into the woman's face -- and saw the face of the same lady who had torn off her fig leaf.

That made it official for Penny. She was in trouble.