Not Exactly What She Was Expecting !

"Ah, Debbi. Great, you're on time." Audrey greeted Debbi at the entrance to the care home, together with the manager of the establishment. "Yes, it's so good of you to help out" said the manager. "The old gentlemen have really perked up since Audrey began her classes and I know how excited they are to be moving on to today's subject" she continued. "Oh, er, no, it's fine. It's my pleasure" Debbi mumbled. "That's the spirit. I'll leave you in Audrey's capable hands" concluded the woman.

"We're through here." Audrey led Debbi into the breakfast bar where a space had been cleared. Four sprightly old gentlemen were sat around in a semi circle behind their easels. In front of them was a high stool, already flanked by Gilbert and another guy that Debbi recognized as Tadeusz, a younger colleague of Gilbert's from the company security team. They were both clad in a kind of Arabic looking robe over their work uniforms.

"Um, where do I get changed ?" Debbi asked, looking around. "There isn't really anywhere" Audrey admitted. "But you might as well just get undressed here since you're going to be nude anyway" she suggested. "Nude ?" exclaimed Debbi. "I thought it was supposed to be a Biblical subject ?" she objected. "It is" said Audrey. "Susanna and the Elders by Alessandro Allori." She gestured to an image projected onto a side wall that Debbi noted for the first time. She was horrified. "Susanna is a chaste maiden and two lecherous old men disturb her at her bath" Audrey was explaining. "That's in the Bible ?" Debbi asked incredulously. "There's some kind of moral" Audrey replied vaguely, not really knowing in detail.

"But why can't they just copy that slide ?" Debbi wondered, still trying to process what she had gotten herself into this time and further alarmed by the way Gilbert and Tadeusz would be posed with her in the tableaux. "That would just be a copy and we want them to exercise their own artistic imagination and give their own interpretation" Audrey countered. "Now if you just slip your things off, we can get you all in the pose !"