'Many women do, I suppose, Johnson. It is the way of the world. Is the harvest moon not ever there, if concealed?'

The question was too deep for him, she saw. Was she, on this occasion, to passively submit, or to rise to the occasion and be bold? Held between the two possibilities, Letitia quivered agreeably. It would be quite hateful to kiss Johnson, but in all other respects he pleasured her well.

'You ain't posed proper, m'am, if I dares to say so, for a question like that', Johnson said and emptied his glass, stepped back and placed it down. Letitia's being by then empty as well, he took it from her hand.

'Am I not?' Letitia asked.

'I seed 'em threaded upright sometimes, knees all bent and quivering, agin a rick or a stable wall, and that's a rare sight. The girls 'ang their 'eads on the men's shoulders and works their bottoms. There's a lot of splashing when the men grunt and come'.

'I imagine', Letitia said faintly. As with Easton, she allowed her wrist to be taken and to be drawn up, though keeping her head well averted from the sturdy manservant's face-the which he respected, as she always realised with pride.

'Nobody's ever done you upright, 'ave they?' Johnson asked, adding 'M'am' quickly.

Her face staring down girlishly, Letitia shook her head, though it was not true. Servants had quaint ideas as to what went on among 'the gentry', despite the actuality of this moment-despite the fact that Johnson had manfully pumped her a score of times now. On Letitia's wedding day, after most of the guests had gone and only her immediate relatives remained, there had been what was politely and carefully called a 'passing by'.

Still attired in her wedding gown-a wondrous frothery of white and cream silk and lace-Letitia had been taken into the morning room by Easton who had asked her, 'Are you ready?' Realising that she was not permitted to refuse, and that several sturdy penises had long been awaiting this moment, Letitia had blushed and nodded, whereat Easton had drawn her gown and underskirt up to her waist and tucked the heavily-folded rear between the wall and her bottom.