“I don't propose to say anything more to you,” Madame stated. “Madame Duval will have plenty to say to you later, I imagine.” She finished the tucking-up. “And when I have finished with you she will give you cleaning materials-and you, young man, will clean away every last one of those marks! Until it has been done, and to everybody's satisfaction, I shall keep your trousers with me, here.”

And with that she leaned sideways and scooped the fallen garment from his shoes. She laid the trousers disdainfully on the carpet beside her.

Then, without further ado, she bared his bottom.'
When Madame de Savois adopts Georges from an orphanage, it is her maid, Jeanne Jacquard, who instructs her in the appropriate methods of disciplining young boys. Madame is quick to learn and devises her own methods of correction. The mistress?s keen interest in corporal punishment blossoms and she meets the villainess of the tale, Madame di Valescu. Her plans for the boy are rather more sinister!