Chapter Twenty-One
Every six months Mrs Lockhart gave a party. Invitations were much prized. At the party Mrs Lockhart would show off her most recent stable of trainees and auction them off for charity. (Mrs Lockhart was extremely wealthy and looked for no financial reward in her activities, only the sheer pleasure of debauching and training young girls.) The guests would be the usual members of Mrs Lockhart’s circle, with always a few newcomers, and Mrs Lockhart’s special friends were allowed to bring a friend of their own. Which is how Philippa found herself that summer’s evening in Mrs Lockhart’s large, opulent house on the outskirts of the city, because her friend Brenda had pressed her to come along. Brenda had only recently been turned, after a lifetime of heterosexuality with her s
