'I thought to call-to make myself known. Forgive me if I have arrived at an inopportune moment', boomed the reverend gentleman.

'Not at all, not at all-pray come in. I am sorry about Mary's ineptitude. She is young and…"

'Untrained?' he interrupted her as they entered the small drawing room that was pleasingly uncluttered. 'Forgive me for having broken across what you may have been about to say, Miss Markham. It is a matter to which I have given much thought, however'.

'Yes?' asked Vanessa in a tone of voice that to some more sensitive souls would have appeared strained. Indicating a comfortable armchair for her visitor, she took up her seat on an equally-well-padded sofa which the Vicar regarded with a professional eye-professional, that is to say, in relation to his private interests, for the arms of the piece of furniture were nobly curved and were winged outwards at an angle which was immediately cogent to his thoughts of how one such as Mary could be put over one of the arms with her bottom well up.

'The-er-yes, the training of young girls. I was about to say, with your permission, that it is most desirable, do you not think?'

'I have not given much thought to the matter, Vicar', responded Vanessa, whose cheeks flushed slightly while- as though to distract herself-she summoned Mary by means of a small silver handbell and ordered tea.

'I have made it already, ma'am, and you wish', said the girl, showing much pride at having anticipated the request.

'You see', declared Vanessa when after but a few moments they were served, 'she is a good girl'.

'In all respects?' asked the cleric with something of a twinkle in his eye, for the more he looked upon his hostess the more he liked. Vanessa might have been described by some as a strapping girl (no pun thereby being intended),

for she was but an inch or so shorter than the Vicar. Unclothed, however, her full beauty was revealed: two noble breasts as white as mounds of snow, a subtly-curved belly beneath which a thick triangular thatch gathered around her slit, thighs of columnar splendour, vaselike hips, and a bottom that would have stirred the penis of a statue.