Miss Sven­son glanced at her col­league and, observ­ing no dis­sent, stood up and took hold of thecane.

At last all was quiet, and having now been left more than half-an-hour to myself in the schoolroom, I ventured to tap at the door and beg Miss Birch to let me into her room, as I would never, never, offend again.

However, such recollections aside, with a clear conscience I can assure you it's not without a genuine sense of regret that I find you reporting to me today under these particular circumstances.

Indeed, I must, though every blow will send a pang to my own heart, you naughty, bad, inattentive girl, all this has come by your great idleness, and trusting too much to the kind heart of your governess. The three canes, junior, senior and a straight-ended, short nursery cane, were at their place in a cupboard. The scooped neckline of her white chiffon blouse revealed a black bead necklace whose centre was embellished with an elongated silver charm that hung just an inch or two above a tantalising glimpse of cleavage.Standing upright he could now feel tears on both sides of his nose, tickling his cheeks as they made their laborious progress down towards his upper lip. To her left a tall beech tree partly obstructed one corner of her window and in that shaded area of glass she saw a ghostlike reflection of her room. There was also a slight stain of blood, for I had actually ravished myself in my furious excitement.

It is often said that we hurt the ones we love the most, and it works both ways, but despite what the old headmaster's cliché might suggest, in reality it always hurts most in exactly the place we would expect.In a manoeuvre that might have appeared feintly comical in different circumstances, he inched the waistband lower, exposing just the first few dark strands of hair at the upper edge of his pubes. But, Woods, as much as that caning, given here and now, would quite probably teach you a few lessons, I think it would not cure the source of your current streak of misbehaviour. How­ev­er, Miss Pren­der­gast noticed that the Head­mistress was hold­ing the cane about a quar­ter of the way down, slight­ly reduc­ing the sever­i­ty of theblows.