Chapter Eight
After the photographs were taken Lucy was told she might go to her room and rest until dinner. She was to come down to dinner with the back of her dress lifted in order to display her bruises.
‘It helps concentrate the minds of the other girls when they see what can be done,’ said the senior tutor. ‘It’s good for them to know that cruelty may be inflicted on them too, merely on a whim.’
Lucy found it difficult to sit still at dinner. She kept wriggling in her chair, trying to find a comfortable position, but her bruises gave her none. But though it was embarrassing to be obliged to display the marks on her bottom for all to see, she drew sympathetic glances from some of the other girls. Perhaps they too had suffered similar treatment.
In the drawing room after dinner she
