A few days later and I was in the middle of a Zoom meeting when someone knocked on the door. Jools was at work, so only me at home. I muted the mike and answered the door, It was Margaret.
"I am just in a meeting, pop into the kitchen, I shall be through in a few minutes." I said.
"I can come back later?" She replied.
"No, no it's fine, just a few minutes and I am all done." I went back and unmuted, not sure if I had missed anything of importance, I focused on what was being said, usually I half listen with my ear keyed into the main messages and not all the subtexts. I didn't think I had missed anything of import. I summed up the key action points that had been discussed and ended the meeting. I wrote a few notes as memory joggers in my note pad and shut the computer and joined Margaret in the kitchen.
"So, how are you?" I asked.
"My eyes are wide open. Thanks to you," she said.
"Oh? How?" I asked.
"He said he was on a course, a residential course where interactive sessions went on into the evening." Margaret was fixing my eyes with her as she spoke, I thought minimal interruption would be my best response.
"Okay" I said.
"I phoned his office and asked to speak to him, I didn't say who I was. They said he was on leave this week."
"Ah."
"So, I think he is cheating on me."
"Okay, and what do you want to do about that?"
"I have already done it. I have engaged a private detective to get me facts and proof of what he is doing."
"Right. Are you sure that you want to do that? When you first came here a few weeks ago, you did not question anything, you simply cooked and laundered for him, and lay on your back and opened your legs when he wanted. That was your life and you were happy with it." Well, it did seem as if I had upset the apple cart.
"Yes and I prayed to The Lord when I got back from that meeting and The Lord said I should listen to you."
'Did he did he really?' I thought but did not say. "Yes, and?" I replied.
"And I came back and spoke to you again, and listened to you as The Lord had instructed and you told me things I had not considered, and I did as you told me. I looked at myself unclothed, and yes, my, er, Lady Area was a bit of a mess, but it never mattered when I was the only one to see it, but now I began to wonder, to wonder if my marriage was as strong as I thought."
This was interesting. I had really only said what I said to get under her skin a little, the holier than thou God Botherers do get to me, and I can't help baiting them a little, but never had any of them come back for a follow up. "Yes?" I replied to her.
"So I took my little pair of scissors, and I trimmed myself, I think I got a bit carried away. Anyway, yes I tidied the garden as you would say, and then I did what you told me to do."
She really was struggling to explain what she had done, stopping, blushing, looking away, yet seemed determined to get her words out. "That surprises me, women rarely do as I tell them to," I said with a laugh in my voice, and attempt to relax her a little.
"I don't believe that," she said, seemingly taking my words literally, not as a humorous riposte. She continued. "I did what you told me to do. I touched myself. I closed my eyes so that I could not see what I was doing, and I touched myself. The Lord had told me to listen to you and that is what you had said to do, The Lord is working through you. I touched myself. I cannot believe I did it and I cannot believe that I am telling you."
Margaret sat back and looked out of the kitchen window, her eyes averting any chance of catching me looking at her as she almost withdrew into herself after she had spoken of her deeds.
"And, did you feel good, did you find the magic button." Well, I had to ask, that was the whole point of her doing it.
She looked at me, her face bright red. "Yes."
"And?" I asked.
"I had to stop, I felt funny and as if I was about to, er" she paused.
"About to what?" I asked
"Well, I don't know, go to the toilet feeling I suppose, only stronger, I don't know. I have never felt anything like it, I was scared I was doing myself a harm."
It sounded to me like she had been close to climaxing. Interesting, so perhaps she has never had an orgasm. "Okay, well I am pretty sure that you were not going to do yourself a harm Margaret, I suspect that had you carried on then you would have experienced one of those intense moments of pleasure I talked about. What happened next?"
"I stopped and got dressed. And then I got down on my knees and I prayed to The Lord."