Chapter Ten
Over the next few weeks a pattern developed. Angel would invite special guests to his home, sometimes those whom Gretel had already met, like Sir Louis or Auguste, sometimes new friends, whose tastes, though always running on the same lines as Angel’s, included extra refinements, variations which never ceased to surprise Gretel with their ingenuity and licentiousness. Gretel saw other girls whipped while she watched, and even on occasion was invited to lay a switch or a flogger across the delicate posterior of a pretty young girl. Gretel marvelled that there were so many people with appetites similar to their own, and so many who were confident enough to reveal the special nature of their desires to others, often strangers. Gretel saw young men being beaten as well, and sorely
