She came home from Mass carried on breezes of Spring afternoon. She unlocked the front door and entered the house. Its rooms were lit only by the sunshine passing through the curtains, giving everything a lazy, blue effect.
She heard the familiar sounds of him upstairs.
He was sitting at his writing desk as she came through the door into the bedroom.
"What are you working on?" she asked. She did not pause in the doorway but entered and moved with purpose to a dressing table.
"It's a story," he began, turning to watch her, "about a blameless girl who knows her catechism and has confessed her sins and has been absolved, and has received the host, and now is a spanking-clean picture of innocence and purity."
While he spoke, she quickly and with purpose removed first her bracelet and her earrings, then her blouse and skirt, then her bra, and then her matching panties, until she stood in front of him on cute kitten heels and clad only in stockings held up by a garter belt and a gold chain around her neck, from which dangled a simple gold crucifix.
"Does that story have a happy ending?" she asked, walking towards him all hips and legs and flair.
"Heavenly," he said, and sank into his chair as she leaned down to kiss him hard on his mouth. His arms wrapped around her, holding tightly to her back, pulling her close so he could feel the lightest touch of the crucifix against him.
"Wait a second," he said, breaking their embrace.