INTRODUCTION
Beth is the head librarian at one of the San Francisco branch libraries. She is
in her early thirties, and dresses like most librarians, very plain and drab
with little effort at looking attractive. She has blond hair that is usually
worn up on her head in a french roll, but her drab clothes do not hide the fact
that she has an excellent figure although it seems as if she tries to cover that
up. She is the very picture of prim, proper, and aloof. Beth lives in an
exclusive area of patio homes not far from the branch library where she works.
She writes a column for the local newspaper twice a week where she does short
book reviews, and has a larger column in the Sunday paper. She is well known in
literary circles and is a frequent guest at social occasions with community
leaders. Her twelve year old daughter goes to a private preparatory school in
New Hampshire, and she sees her just during the short summer vacation and during
holidays. Beth dates infrequently because her primary love is her work and her
hobby, reading and doing the reviews for the newspaper. As her social standing
grows, her name is often mentioned as the primary candidate to replace the main
library's head administrator when she retires in a couple of years.
Frank is in his mid-forties, in excellent physical condition, and is quite nice
looking. He teaches psychology at one of the small private colleges in the
area, and has been a frequent visitor to the branch library where Beth is head
librarian for the past few months. He wears nice clothes and is well groomed,
but looks the part of psychology professor. He lives only a block from Beth in
one of the patio homes similar to hers. Frank is divorced and lives alone. He
is a very organized person and is most methodical in every thing he does. He is
a planner, and prides himself on being able to accomplish anything he sets out
to do. His hobby is that he considers himself somewhat of an amateur inventor,
and has converted part of his garage into sort of a shop where he spends most of
his free time. Frank has a field of his profession that is also his hobby and
from time to time an outlet for his sexual desires. Frank discovered the area
of dominant/submissive relationships in college as a study in psychology. Over
the years he has increased his knowledge greatly, but his actual experiences
have always been with consenting, experienced submissives that he met in one of
the local nightclubs for people with these interests. None of them were
rewarding and challenging enough to hold his interest beyond only a few sessions
because they amounted to just playing the roles.
Beth knows Frank because of his frequent visits to her branch of the library,
but it is only the most casual type of acquaintance. He is just one of many
people she knows on that same basis, and there is nothing that makes him stand
out in her mind. She does not know how close they live, or what his profession
is. She does not even know his name without reference to his library card. The
only thing she does know is that when she waits on him, his eyes seem to pierce
her and make her feel uncomfortable. She even goes as far as to avoid eye
contact with him when he is in the library.
Over the past two months, Frank has been interested in Beth, more than she could
possibly imagine. His interest was initially caused by her unwillingness to
make eye contact with him, a sign of vulnerability he quickly recognized. He
has researched her past in minute detail. He has studied the records of her
divorce, her credit history, her career, her high school and college records,
everything he could get his hands on about her. He has been careful every step
of they way to raise no suspicions nor attract any attention to himself. He has
found enough information about Beth to know she was going to become his pupil,
and he has it very well planned. It is going to start by letting her know what
he knows, that she had lost custody of her daughter in a bitter divorce because
of her lifestyle, that she had been a stripper at a local club to pay her way
through college, that she had posed nude for magazines, and she had been
arrested years ago for prostitution on two occasions. While all of this was
before she started her career in the library system, he feels he has enough to
get her attention if done systematically.
He has for the past 10 days sent Beth an envelope to the library with no return
address nor way of identifying its sender. Each one contained either a couple
of her photos which he found in old copies of the magazine or a copy of one of
her arrests for prostitution. None even had a note in it. It is Friday and
Frank had been to the library about three o'clock, a time after the last of his
mailings would have been delivered. He did not talk to Beth, but could see that
she seemed nervous and upset. He went home smiling to himself. His next step
was to call her at work and arrange a meeting in a public place for this evening
to identify himself. If things went the way he planned at this brief meeting,
he was going to arrange a date for Saturday night, just a dinner date but she
would be wearing the clothes he would have delivered to her house on Saturday
afternoon. He knew this had to start slow at first and he was prepared. He
would move from simple demands at first to her ultimate coming out as his "date"
at one of the special nightclubs. He called the library, and asked to speak to
the head librarian. Beth answered, saying "this is the head librarian, how can
I help you?" Frank said, "...............
