"May I speak?" she asked.
"Yes," I said. I had drawn the curtains behind me.
"You have been gone long," she said.
"Do you object?" I asked.
"No!" she said. "I must wait, patiently!"
I crouched beside her and removed the small chain that ran across her forehead, with the tiny ornament, the pearl droplet, and put it to one side. I then, too, lifted the necklaces from about her neck, putting them, too, to one side.
"You are stripping me for use?" she asked.
"To some extent," I said. I did not have, for example, the key to her anklet, on which the slave bells were located. Too, it can be pleasant to leave such things on a female in her use, bells, bracelets and such, whatever one pleases.
She looked up at me.
"I am going to remove the slave silk," I said.
"If I cry out too much," she whispered, "thrust it in my mouth."
"All right," I said. Sometimes a girl's hair is used for the same, purpose.
I then drew loose the disrobing loop of the silk, at her left shoulder, and drew aside the silk.
"Be pleased," she begged. "Be pleased!" "I am pleased," I said.
"I am ready," she whispered, intensely. I touched her, gently.
"Ai!" she exclaimed.
"You are indeed ready, female," I said.
"Use me," she wept. "Use me now, now!"
"I think, first," I said, "I will caress you a little."
"Please do not touch me now," she said. "Every bit of me is alive. I do not think I can stand it."
"You do not wish to be touched?" I asked.
"Just use me," she begged. "Just use me!"
"No," I said, "I am going to caress you a little."
"Oh!" she said, touched.
She lay back, in the chains, hot, flushed, tremblingly, piteously.
"It will be done with you as I please," I said, "not as you please."
"Yes, my captor," she whimpered. "Oh! Oh!"
"You leap and squirm well," I said.
She looked at me, resentfully. "Oh!" she said.
"See?" I said.
"Yes, my captor!" she exclaimed.
I then let her subside a little. One can always bring them back to where one wants them.
"Aii!" she said. "Please finish with me!"
"Not until I am pleased to do so," I said.
"It will apparently be as you wish, my captor," she moaned.
"Yes," I said.
"Oh," she said. "Oh!"
"Are you helpless?" I asked.
"Yes," she said, "I am helpless, and in bonds, and you are doing with me as you please!"
"Did you ever suppose you would be chained like this, and responding in a paga tavern, as you are?" I asked.
"No," she said. "No!"
"Did you ever dream you could be this helpless, and this hot?" I asked.
"No," she said. "No! No!"
I then, deeming that she well understood her position, put her to the first use.