Elizabeth Mayfield was pleased yet not surprised at the progress she was making with her young pupil. Edward was suffering from the sexual embarrassment of his insecure nudity in front of Elizabeth and her female staff but it was something much more traumatic that his governess knew was causing him agonizing mental anguish. It was the extremely small size of his penis he had so repeatedly been told and his masturbation habit that had stunted its growth. Yes, his governess was his mistress of physical pain but she also controlled and manipulated his young mind without him never having a clue what she was deliberately doing. Elizabeth was using her “daily ritual plus one” philosophy that had been so successful with other teenage boys. That was her piling - it - on philosophy that included utilizing the same daily rituals and adding one new ritual to be repeated every day thereafter. This disciplinary “piling it on” approach was breaking young Edward down. His hope of escaping his daily fate had faded but his attention to following her rules and overall behavior was readily noticeable. …show more content…
Now he was demonstrating respect for the women he had verbally abused and dismissed as beneath his social class dignity in the past. Edward was cooperating with what they were telling him to do and he was answering their directions with, “Yes ma’am.” But Edward’s slip ups still plagued him, with swift punitive action causing him much pain. Edward’s failure of his required perfection presented ample daily discipline sessions for his governess who relished her opportunities to physically chastise the