For Eve this was all quite surreal—a group of well-dressed people in a suburban living room sitting around watching as the maid was first stripped, then spanked by their hostess. She glanced over at the sofa. Tom was watching with a placid expression while Amy stared open-mouthed. Eve wondered if she were equally shocked. To her right she saw Dr. Boone smiling. It was the first time Eve had seen that expression, one that was far from becoming to her. The spanking lasted only a few minutes, its brief duration likely the result of Mabel’s limited stamina rather than any impulse of mercy. Brusquely Mabel ordered the maid to stand up, then slowly and painfully lifted herself off the chair. Breathing hard from her exertions, her face flushed and filled with malice, she ordered Lyla to remove h

