Charlotte opened her husband's bedroom door and entered, one hand concealing some object from his view.
He tried to catch a glimpse of it as she approached him where he sat on the bed, but she blocked it from his sight, and he looked up at her appealingly.
"Mr. Collins, why did you speak so appallingly of Lady Catherine's carriage to Miss Bennet?" she asked contemptuously. "Would you have my friend think you such a boot-licking toady that you would dwell on the very coins she had pay for her equipage in such an unseemly manner?"
Collins fell to his knees before her. "I thought she might like to know," he said, pleadingly.
"I assure you, she cares not," Charlotte said, pushing him back with her foot.
"Dear Charlotte, I am so sorry," he said. "Please, do not punish me."
"You try to cry off your punishment? You need punishment now more than ever," Charlotte said. "If I do not reprove you now, who knows what terrible thing you might do."
From behind her she drew a riding crop and brought the stiff leather to touch her husband's face.
"As Lady Catherine's horses set an example of obedience that you should follow, I borrowed her crop to see if it could instill you with some semblance of their discipline."
Collins face showed the warring of desire and fear. "But Charlotte, it should hurt..."
She loomed over him. "And hurt it shall, if it is to have any hope of transmitting obedience through your mulishness."
She sat and gestured to her lap. He flung down his trousers and quickly lay upon her, his hands already clasping the bedspread.
She caressed his buttocks with the leather for a moment, then flicked her wrist thrice, and the leather left furrows of agony across her husband's rear.
She flung the lash to the side then landed a strong series of slaps with her hand upon the flesh, the flesh quickly swelling and reddening, particularly where she had struck with the lash.
Collins sobbed and pleaded as the spanking went on, each strike building on the pain of the last until he knew not how he bore it.
She reached for the crop and carefully laid two more strikes opposite of the last, then ran her fingers over the reddened flesh once again.