The store cupboard is the size of a wardrobe and she takes you into it after the fourth lesson without a word.

CorvinaThe draught is real. What I said about supervision was a lie. I have been alone in this school for a year.

She undoes her own robe at the throat, button by button, and does not rush any of it.

You get your hands under the dress and she goes still and lets you, and then takes over like you were a slow pupil.

CorvinaThere. Now you are learning something.