“Yes, miss ...” But he remained motionless, standing before her uncertainly.
“Well, what are you waiting for?”
“I – miss, –I shall have to undress ...”
“Of course. You do not make a habit of taking a bath in your dressing-gown, I hope. Take it off.”
He began untying the cord around his waist, hoping she would leave; then he understood that she meant to be present when he took his bath. He slipped out of the gown and stood nude before her.
She sat down, examining him with her cool, intent glance. This was the first time she had seen him naked, and for all her air of outward calm she was deeply stirred by the beauty of this adolescent body. Her eyes passed appreciatively from point to point, dwelling with connoisseurship now on the plump shoulders, now on the straight slender legs, now on the almost feminine swell of the hips, but fixing at last on the firm and nervous rondure of buttocks and thighs, and then centring inevitably on the puerile penis which, by now soft and pendent, had withdrawn coyly between his thighs where it formed, with the small tight testicles, a kind of dainty genital triumvirate in a state of modesty and repose. When he was in the water she drew her chair beside the bathtub.
“I have been entrusted by your father,” she said with a smile, “with the task of supervising your whole upbringing, — and that comprises more than school work, you know. So I shall be here every morning to see that you take your bath, whether you like it or not. Now hurry. Wash yourself thoroughly all over!”
Richard obeyed. He was thinking more and more of his little schoolmate’s governess. How far would the resemblance go? And how downright and domineering this woman was! Suddenly disturbed by the thought that he might even now be keeping her waiting, he finished washing himself and was rising to leave the bath when she stopped him.
“What is this?” she said sharply. “Do you not wash your private parts?”
“No, miss – I mean, yes ... I thought that – that – ”
“You thought you would omit them this morning, I suppose! I told you to wash yourself all over. Kneel down and do so at once, if you please.”
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