Head Permanently Bowed

Regular sightseers at the public pillory – misses Arabella and Mukta madams – enjoy taunting a hapless prisoner-slave, asking him how his neck and shoulders are feeling after 3 long days and nights confined in the pillory? They both opine that his neck and shoulder muscles must be aching? He humbly and politely confirms that they are.

Ms Arabella madam – a smoker –  then asks the slave if he doesn’t feel shame, having to look down at the ground and at people’s feet, shoes and boots all the time? The slave confirms that he does indeed feel shame madam, and that it is right and proper that his head should be kept permanently bowed miss?

Ms Arabella then rests her own sneakered foot on the bottom crossbeam directly below his humble gaze in order to give him a better look and maliciously orders him to describe her sock in detail, which he obediently does in the most respectful and reverential of terms since he knows this girl has POWER over him and can have him WHIPPED at a mere click of her female fingers!

Better to praise SOCK than to feel WHIP!

He chokes on her cigarette smoke as he extols the virtues of her SOCK! Her friend Ms Mukta laughs at the slave.

The pilloried slave is ordered to extol the virtues of Ms Arabella's SHORT SOCK

He must do so whilst choking on her cigarette smoke

Ms Mukta laughs at his obsequious praise for her friend Arabella's SOCK!

The SOCK in question

Just an everyday, plain black SNEAKER-SOCK

But a SOCK which now must loom large in his lowly consciousness!

The slave's humbling view of the SOCK...

...and the tiny POCKMARK on Ms Arabella madam's shapely feminine ankle just above the SOCK!

Of course, if he looks to his left, he can just make out the SOCK of his other tormentress

Ms Mukta's SOCK looks decidedly manky!

But there is nothing 'manky' about these two bright young women!

They must be RESPECTED, PANDERED TO and OBEYED. For he is in their POWER and at their MOCKING MERCY!