"Meritxell sincerely desires to impress people. This is unfortunately as close as she comes to having any innate aptitude for submission. She is all pride and no slavery. If Keltham expects submission of Meritxell and the expectation is clear to her, she is apt to show him what he expects, to impress him. She could play a clear role we give her, to impress us. But I am not sure what his reading-skills will make of that... it is such a ridiculous inconvenience, that! I keep wondering if it might just be a matter of enhancing Splendour high enough to fool him, but, the trouble is, I can think of no safe way to trial any such method, what if it fails! I cannot, without great efforts, even try to make Meritxell show Keltham what he expects to see, in arousal responses to pain or command. Meritxell would have no trouble performing in every aspect and would even delight in that performance, but I cannot see a clear and sure road to having Keltham perceive that she is aroused by it."
"I am also somewhat concerned that if Meritxell is constantly around Keltham, her pride will bite at her if Keltham desires her to be in ways that she is not in truth - that if he visibly desires her to be a 'real' submissive and not just the outer shell of one, then, even if she fools him, she will still feel that she is not doing well enough. Not that her unhappiness would ordinarily be a problem, of course, but if it starts to interfere with her arousal in ways that Keltham can read, it becomes a problem."