Chapter Six And so it went for the remaining several weeks of summer. The mornings and afternoons passed in exercise and separate activities, and each evening was a searing erotic gem for both participants, bonding them ever more deeply with each earth-shattering climax and well-orchestrated journey into the psychologically complex world of dominance and submission. They gradually became deep friends as well as lovers, developing a pattern of spending an hour or two outdoors on the grounds talking each afternoon. The young man discovered Miss Laura’s story: a stultifying upper class British upbringing that ended in an Oxford degree but no real direction, followed by a parentally disapproved flight to India to study yoga with a famous teacher, and eventual immigration to the US, where weal

