The next lesson began as Freya and Hazel stood barefoot next to each other, hitched to a rope around a granite counter-topped bar; duct-tape gags muffled their anxious murmurs and their tops had been removed to reveal rope-framed bare breasts. When they turned face-to-face and rubbed their taped mouths together trying to remove the gags, accidental breast contact granted Hazel and Freya a few moments of sensual pleasure during their humiliating restraint. But it ended quickly with cynical remarks from the subject of their investigation, who told them to move farther apart.