A story in the Brennan Universe
Jeanette Brennan is willing enough to have sex with her husband, Bob. She isn't quite willing to engage in the sensuality which Bob wants to introduce.
Just an office type thing between an engineer and the girls in the accounts office where they keep promising him a kiss at Christmas for all his help. Christmas is now here and it's time to collect.
After losing her temper, Alice is sentenced to a whipping for assault. Her father, the local vicar, disgusted with her behaviour, ensures she has the harshest treatment and a lengthy work rehab programme in a subject she won't like.