Chapter Twelve
She wasn’t awakened till eight o’clock and this time she was brought a cup of tea. She was led along the corridor to the bathroom, where Paula washed every inch of her body and dried her carefully with a big white towel before taking her into the bedroom. Helen came in carrying a small electric razor such as women use to shave their legs.
“Lie back on the couch,” she said to Sophie. “You must be shaved for the ceremony.”
Sophie lay back and Helen parted her legs and began to shave her pubic hair. The regulations contained no word about Subjects being shaved before initiation; Roberto had, on the contrary, several times expressed his approval of the luxuriant growth of her pubic bush. She wanted to ask if it was simply being done to facilitate the piercing. But by now she
