” She looked, as if to see if we were paying attention, and said, “But, there’s one warm spot on the couch. Okay, so one of you might have bee... sitting and the other one standing,” she looked at me, “or maybe Louise was on your lap.” She had a funny smile when she said that. Then, something seemed to occur to her, and she narrowed her eyes. She turned, and dropped to her knees, and actually sniffed the middle cushion of the couch. She stood up, and she said, simply, “Sex!” She turned and. "Assume the position," she commanded.Percy docilely bent over the arm of the couch presenting his pasty whitebuttocks."So, Percy," she said, "I shall let you decide how many strokes you feelyou deserve. If your total agrees with the number I have in mind I shalllet you off, but if it disagrees then you shall receive double thenumber you asked for. And then you must apologise for your baseness andbeg me to flog you."Mildred waited slapping the riding crop against the palm of her handwhile Percy. Barbra was always there on Thursday and Friday and we had been flirting with each other for nearly a month. I had asked her out once or twice but she was busy each time. I am not the sort to hound a woman for a date. I ask once or twice and if she says no I assume that I am not her type. So it was with Barbra. Then one day she mentioned a new Science Fiction movie she wanted to see. I told her I was going to see it as soon as I could. She asked if I would like some company and so the following. One said, “Accept.” The other said, “Exit program.” Ellie wanted desperately to click the “Exit” button, and escape this thing–shut her computer down and never turn it on again. Yet she was unable to do that. Instead, her eyes widened as her right hand rose up, seemingly of its own accord, moved the mouse so the cursor was over “Accept,” and clicked the button. The screen began to flicker and change, presenting compelling patterns of light interspersed with images and blips of text too quickly.