Gagging order

Despite any apparent change, Max and Mark were aware of the fact that the things that went on in the bedroom their mother shared with Tony were not nice. The door to their mother’s bedroom that had until then remained unlocked, in case the boys needed comfort in the night, were now locked to keep secret Angela’s nightly discomfort… a discomfort she now believed she richly deserved. And whilst Angela’s cries were muted by the firm application of a long woolly sock as a gag, listening at her bedroom door they could nonetheless hear her muffled outbursts, indicating her pain.