This whole exchange was enormously relieving to Randolph. If his bride was unable to see reason when guided so carefully, his task in taming her was going to be far more difficult. Now, at least, her rational mind was on the verge of being enlisted in his impending efforts to undo the terrible spoiling that her Father’s ill-advised soft-heartedness had caused. But the remainder of what the Crown Prince hoped would be an airtight case for the resumption of his bride’s correctional discipline still needed to be nailed down.
Randolph went on, “So, Natalie, my beloved Princess and wife, what do you think is the role and place of corporal punishment in the instillation of proper values in young people of both genders?”
Somehow, the fact that her handsome interrogator framed the question as r
