Tamsin, a senior prefect, is expected to set a good example. When her housemaster discovers her in her study, resting, with a bottle of champagne beside her, he is not amused. She is sent straight to the punishment room. Determined to make an example of her, he decides to give her good beating. When she learns that she is to take thirty three strokes, she cannot believe her ears. She will not be sitting down again that day. (CA236)

Tamsin, a senior prefect, is expected to set a good example. When her housemaster discovers her in her study, resting, with a bottle of champagne beside her, he is not amused. She is sent straight to the punishment room. Determined to make an example of her, he decides to give her good beating. When she learns that she is to take thirty three strokes, she cannot believe her ears. She will not be sitting down again that day. (CA236)