Perhaps I could practice some more with you”“Yes, maybe that’s possible. Keep you away from those rough types. Makes sure you come to no harm.... Maybe once a week should we say? “Of course. As often as you like. Can we agree something on my allowance, headmaster? Say £100 a week”“£100?! Whatever for?”“Sir, these seamed stockings are not cheap and I’m always in need of some new stiletto shoes, sir and then there’s the make-up, suspender belts, I’d like a corset but they cost so much and my. It was clear to her I was talking about the area below the beltline of her Bermuda shorts."Maybe a little bit lower," Tess agreed. "But don't go more than three or four inches farther down from my -- from my waistline."She loosened the Bermudas in the front and I allowed her to define the "three or four inches" by how far down she allowed the Bermudas to go.It wasn't all that far, but a delicious curve of her lower left hip appeared. This was Tessian Territory I'd never before seen. Maybe, I. As I got out of my car I noticed a truck slicking out of the side alley of the building and thought I would go investigate even though I knew what it was for. As I came around the back she was standing on the porch giving two guys directions on where to put her dresser as two girls were carrying boxes in. She saw me and told me that she got some of her friends to help her move her stuff and that if it was ok that she stayed here tonight. I told her it was no problem and that since there was. But the echoes of the chime die away --they have endured but an instant --and a light, half-subdued laughter floats after them as they depart. And now again the music swells, and the dreams live, and writhe to and fro more merrily than ever, taking hue from the many-tinted windows through which stream the rays from the tripods. But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away; and there flows a ruddier light.