You really know you’ve messed up when the Headmistress gets formal enough to show up to your punishment in full academic regalia!
While tapping her nastiest cane threateningly against the palm of her hand, she describes exactly what’s about to happen to you: “you can be sure”, she tells you, “that you’ll be howling and wincing, tears running down your cheeks”. She is not, however, without mercy.
You may choose to take the cane, should you wish it. But if it terrifies you – if you’d do anything, anything at all, to escape having to face the humiliation and the pain – she can offer you another option. Slip off her patent heels and worship her stockinged feet, and if you do a good job, perhaps the Headmistress will be willing to let you off…
