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Whops and Clobber
the afternoon duty roster and they were posted
before lunch. Unfortunately everybody else checked
the notice-board; you were the only one who failed to
turn up. The Red House was fined fifteen points so
Dame Wharton insists that you are caned.”
Deborah grimaced. “I was upstairs studying,”
she said rather lamely.
“Do you wish to lodge an appeal?” asked
Patsy.
Debs licked her dry lips and considered this
option. Although the appeal system was designed to
offer the inmates a safety net and to dissuade the
more tyrannical elements of the Brass and Elite from
awarding bogus whops it had a significant downside.
An unsuccessful appeal resulted in a second six of the
best being delivered twenty-four hours later.
Ms Wharton who served as the Mistress of the
Red House was notorious for her strict and often
brutal interpretation of the House Protocols. Even if
Debs was able to persuade the prefects on the
Council of the Red House that it was just an
unfortunate oversight the Mistress of the House
would still have to sanction the reprieve. From painful
experience she knew that in all probability the Wart
would interpret her failure to check the notice board
as willful negligence or some such nonsense.
Unappealing as six might be, one six was certainly
preferable to two sixes.
“I’ll take a whopping now,” she grunted with a
decided lack of enthusiasm.
Patsy Butcher took her time taking off her
blazer, loosening her collar and rolling back her