CHAPTER 5: COMING AT ONCE
Introduction: The continuing story of the sexual adventures of a prep school teacher in the 1950s and 1960s.
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By that third summer, however, a new colleague had joined us, and I now record my few experiences with her, for she was with us only one term. I will call her Bianca, because she was so pale as to be almost albino. She was also the nearest thing I have come across to a nymphomaniac, without, mercifully, being one, for she was avid for sex almost non-stop but had no trouble at all with coming.
She was in her late twenties, and, as so often with private school teachers, obviously fleeing some liaison, and, as often, eager to form another, probably temporary one, one soonest. As the youngest male on the staff and free of entanglements, she chose me at first sight.
Apart from her pallor, she was not particularly striking physically, being average in height and figure. Her face was pleasant but not pretty, and at first I found her washed-out colouring rather off-putting, for her very fine hair was so pale blonde as to be almost white, and her brows and lashes were all-but invisible.
I happened to be on duty on the first day of that autumn term, while the parents were delivering their sons and the staff was drifting back, for afternoon tea. So I was outside when her taxi pulled up and she sprang out eagerly and surveyed her new home. I knew she had not seen it before because the grapevine had transmitted the news of her last-minute appointment. The taxi driver unloaded her suitcase and drove off.
She looked me up and down and strode over and shook my hand vigorously, announcing her name. I told her mine and we stood grinning at each other a few minutes, till I showed her to the dining-room, poured her some tea and went back to my patrolling. I was wondering whether she might be accessible, and whether I could fancy her, despite her pallid hue. She was smartly dressed in a well-fitting light blue suit and matching blouse, with stockings and black court shoes. I suspected she had private money.
At supper a couple of hours later I was already at table, and she made a bee-line for me. She had changed the blouse for a high necked, cream-coloured, lambs-wool jumper and her shoes were now cream. She sat down beside me and we exchanged some chit-chat. She questioned me about the school a while and then said, 'And what do you do for relaxation?'
I recognised this as code for 'What do you do for sex?' So answered, 'As we're a good way from town, we have to make our own.'
She followed on. 'And how do you make your own?'
Rather recklessly I replied, 'That rather depends on who I'm with.'
'Should that be "whom"?' she asked, but it was not really a grammatical query. It was to draw attention to the possible identity of the fellow relaxer.
'What do you like to do?' I asked her.
'That would be telling,' she said, meaning that she was telling.
That was about enough for now, I decided, and we talked of other relaxations, including dancing to gramophone records, which we did some weekends. And it was one of those informal dances, the very next weekend, which provided the opening, in all senses.
We used the gymnasium and she appeared all in black skirt and sweater, hair tied back with a black ribbon. As we waltzed I congratulated her on the contrast of her colouring and costume, and she said, 'Some people think I bleach my hair.'
'Oh no,' I said, 'It's obviously natural.'
'But,' she said, looking up to give me a wicked look and a giggle, 'Some men want to check, though.'
'And do you let them?' I asked.
'It depends on whom I'm with.'
'You're with me,' I said.
'Do you want to check?'
'Well, of course, I'd like to be sure,' I said.
'Perhaps that could be arranged later. If there's somewhere suitable.'
Fortunately, as I knew very well, her room was a hastily adapted storeroom on the third floor. My room was adjacent to the stairs on the second floor. So I suggested I might visit her later, after the dance, unobserved. Then I gathered her closer and squeezed her hand, a squeeze she strongly returned.