Within, she saw tanned limbs flicker as though jolted alive from the big sleep as the sun’s rays laid a blaze onto the canopy over the bedchamber’s pallet.

So, Constance’s ward was already awake.

The long-limbed gamine form of Constance’s houseguest Veronica Van Damme slinked in gray silhouette. Nubile nudity imbued with innocence and grace.

Veronica took her place in the sunlit slit of the high bedchamber window.

She brought her arms together above her head. Hips went liquid as her tempered titties slacked against her leonine ribcage.

“Farewell, my lovely,” Constance sighed.

She followed Veronica’s glide into the long goodbye. Were Veronica a sister less skilled in the art of the platform dive, it might have been the kiss-off for an act of suicide.

But make no mistake, the lady in the lake was as at home in the air and the water as she was in the comforts of her bedchamber lair.

Constance espied Veronica’s primly clipped pubic hair torque in midair. The slash between Veronica’s asscheeks slipped beneath the water’s break.

Constance then thought she caught a glimpse of another flash of skin hovering within the shaded confines of the guest suite’s bedchamber. From the angle of the dangle, the apparition resembled the tremble of Morrigana’s spread froufrou.

What was Morrigana doing there in the nude? Of course, one’s own skin was the customary garb when Constance held informal court among the ladies while in residence at Charity House.

Constance smiled as she lay back to bathe in the rays. Her mind refocused.

Tracing a circle about one pink nipple, she crinkled the tip with the edge of her fingernail. Once again, she tabbed on the tape recorder.

“I never fuck. I just lust. Or is that too much? Too vulgar or not vulgar enough?”

She absently played with her vulva. Curving fingernails into the slit to her cuticles.

“Maybe if I say that fucking and sucking with cock in mouth, ass, and cunt is nothing to compare with fucking one’s mind-well, that may be too blunt.” She breathed into the mouthpiece. “If so, I’ll come up with another.”