Once they overtook and passed a group of women clad in short skirts and loose waists and with their hair hanging in braids down their backs.

For a third time Obadiah nudged Captain Plum.
"It is the king's pleasure that all women wear skirts that come just below the knees," he whispered.

"Some of them won't do it and he's wondering how to punish them.

To-morrow there's going to be two public whippings.

One of the victims is a man who said that if he was a woman he'd die before he put on knee skirts.