Because Richie has not cleaned at home and has not ironed the laundry, Melady subjects him to his punishment. At first it packs him with the whole body into a foil. So he then must motionlessly lie on the ground and he it sits up. And Richie must let everything go out in the foil defencelessly about itself which then follows: Under permanent verbal humiliations he gets firm slaps again and again and all the time is spat by it into the face.