Chapter Seven
“Vice is its own reward.”
- Quentin Crisp
Sabrina
The Countess received Sabrina in the parlor of her Central Park West townhouse. It was a luxuriously appointed room in conservative good taste; Sabrina could only imagine, though, what exotic devices occupied the other floors. And shortly Archer would have to be turned over for whatever exotic torments the Countess had planned.
Sabrina was of mixed emotions; she worried about Archer and at the same time she regretted that she would probably be unable to witness Archer’s subjugation. The Countess had an elaborate and twisted imagination, even better than her own. Sabrina was sure the Countess had turned this townhouse into a virtual clone of her Florentine castle of torments.
The Countess offered tea, just as if this was
