My dream last night, very vivid. A uniformed maid stands very upright, facing the wall, trembling slightly. Behind her, a long, polished dining room table – this is a particularly grand house.Her name is called; she turns, and sees the four girls who have been punished before her, bent in a line over the end of the table. Their skirts are raised: aghast, she sees their red, striped backsides.
She walks towards the master of the house. Despite this being her first punishment at his hands, she already knows the routine, having listened as her four friends were disciplined in turn before her.
She bares her bottom at his command, bends over the table edge, stretches out. She cries out as the whip cuts down, unbelievably painfully. Six strokes, just like each the friends who were now reluctantly observing her thrashing from their table-end vantage point.
I wonder how this played out. I’m figuring they were all lectured together and then there were four on the wall, then one over the table and three on the wall, then two over the table and so on.
Abel, do you know the little ditty, ‘There were 12 in the bed and the little one said…roll over, roll over…..there were 11 in the bed and the little one said…roll over…roll over…’?
You don’t suppose it has been playing on your mind all this time?
Hugs
Rob
Well they obviously weren’t punished for not polishing the table, that’s nice and shiny as it should be… I think it may have involved some food stolen from the larder, a midnight feast and unseemly and possibly naked cavorting going on in the attic rooms they share, such naughty maids
Or (to continue Sarah’s thought) they could be being punished because it was discovered that they were all sneaking off to visit the butler and or master of horse…
Of course the great thing about that direction is that they could have been being black-mailed or otherwise coerced by said paramour, so they could have been stuck in one of those terrible positions where they *had* to have sex with the butler or they’d loose their job, and then now they are getting punished for it!
Oh, how I hate it when that happens! 😉