William sat with his burning hands alternately pressed between his legs or under his armpits when he wasn’t blowing on them or waving them around. The bubbling stopped after 10 minutes or so, the tears dried, but the tear tracks, red eyes, and bright scarlet swollen hands were evidence for the rest of the day and in the bus going home, that a self-important ‘young adult’ could be brought down a peg or two and transformed into a naughty schoolboy in less than 3 minutes with a good hard dose of the strap.
As for William, did he get the belt deliberately, either to find out what it was like or to make sure he didn’t go through his school career without ever having had the experience? I don’t know, he seemed to lose interest in talking about the belt after that (!). I think he did, but if so he got the De Luxe treatment that day.