Chapter Twenty Left alone to contemplate, Nicholas Strothers begins to realize that the psychological burden of his partial orchiectomy is as ponderous as the physical. To serve intact may mean facing the daily nothingness of pumping water. Though Angelica claims to want him harnessed and laboring under her crop, are there assurances she will not later change her mind? What if he fails to please as a stallion? It is apparent that Ms. Genevieve enjoys running her ponies in a most priapic state. And Miss Angie seems to prefer the same. Thus, what would be the consequences of failing to properly display subjugated male virility? He could be doomed to the odd pumping apparatus...eating gruel, kissing the buttocks of his benefactress and then laboring for hours under the threat of a firm cani

