Join the Dots… Teddy Girl
From Blushes 39 Mr Lindop is a very bookish man. You could imagine him as a professor or something. With that serious expression, the half-rimmed spectacles, his balding head. Do professors have balding heads? They probably do. Most of all he almost always has his head in a book. As he does now. Even here in this hotel room. While she, Miranda, is in the cupboard. On her knees… Not Miranda, Teddy. ‘I think I’ll call you Teddy then,’ he said. In that shop, in the lingerie department. ‘What’s that called?’ and she said, ‘It’s a teddy.’ He wouldn’t believe her but of course she was right. He bought one, pale cream, silk. It was expensive. And then he said, ‘That’s what we’ll call you then: Teddy.’ Here in the hotel room she had to put it on. The teddy and the white high heels. Everything else off. And get in the cupboard. Kneeling on the bare floor with her arms raised above her head. Why was he making her do this? To torment her? ...