Tilly is an author in the middle of an adventure novel where her heroine gets captured by the bad guys and tied up and gagged. Tilly always likes to write about what she knows, a writer's axiom, and is concerned that she has no experience at all as to what being tied up and unable to escape feels like. She decides to visit a friend with a purse full of rope and ask him to tie her up as tightly as he can so that she can sample the experience first hand. Her friend seems quite happy to help her out, and even has some experience in tying so he is able to make a very thorough job of it. Indeed, he puts her into a hogtie where not only are her wrists connected to her ankles, but also her ankles are connected to a chest tie. By the time he has finished binding her, Tilly can barely move. Her friend says that if she were really in the hands of some bad guys, they would most certainly gag her to stop her calling out, and retrieving a roll of duct tape from a drawer, he proceeds to stick several strips of it over Tilly's mouth and cheeks. Tilly is still in good humour as she lies there helpless on the floor, and she asks her friend to let her go now since she feels she has attained sufficient familiarity with being bound. Her friend, who explains that he was about to go out when she arrived, tells her that if she really wants to experience being a prisoner in bondage, she should really stay in the ropes for several hours. Tilly protests through her gag, trying to say no and asking to be released again. Instead of freeing her, her friend goes out and leaves her to gain some truly authentic experience of her predicament. Tilly hollars after him, demanding that he come back and release her, but her cries fall on deaf ears as her friend closes the front door on his way out. Tilly rolls around, fumbling with the ropes behind her back, looking for a knot, or at least a little slack in her bonds, but she can find neither. She's trapped; well and truly trapped. (Towards the end of filming when we checked with Tilly that she was still alright, she said in a muted voice - well, she was speaking through duct tape - that she was fine but she couldn't wait to get out of this. She reported afterwards that she really could not move the way she was tied. Clearly a successful tie, one to remember for future tying!)

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