Expectantly.
Her eyes flickered from mine to her foot and then back again as she waited for me divine her meaning.
It did not take me long and I felt my cheeks colour as I realised what was about to happen.
And, worse, just how much I was looking forward to it.
“Yes. Of course,” I smiled, trying to make light of what was without doubt until then the most humiliating act I had ever been asked to perform for someone who, to all intents and social purposes, remained a stranger.
Which was when, making what was already demeaning awkward, I realised that, in order to gain access to her feet, I would be required to kneel before her.
Which was also when a feeling of what I can only describe as the most profound… weakness …debilitated my whole body in a way that made me grateful I would not b
