“Why have you lit the fire? It’s not needed and it’s a complete waste of logs.”“I …err … thought it made the room more … homely and we...coming.”“It also makes it unbearably hot,” I said with a certain amount of venom in my voice.“I’m sorry Mistress, I thought it made the room nice for you.”I could take no more of her silliness. “Right, you silly girl what have you done this time. I can read your guilt like a book.”“Mistress, I’m really sorry it was an accident, I promise. I didn’t mean anyone to. I like them a lot, but ... In Padley Gorge, the young ladies I see who aren’t hikers don’t dress like that. They stand out because they are graceful and elegant. Come to think of it, they aren’t all that young, but they do share the grace and elegance.From time to time, I may be sitting and leaning against a tree, or perched on a log or boulder, just soaking up the ambience. Doing that, I’ve been approached on occasion by ... people. Mostly female, but not always. But always dressed .... Never mind that she was warm, loving, and, somewhere underneath it all, recklessly passionate. At 38 she was still a virgin.Her last attempt at a relationship, some years back, had been a disaster. Stanley ("call me Studley") had seemed to like her all right, but was ashamed to be seen with her in public. "My buddies'd have a shit fit if they saw me hanging around with a fat chick," he admitted."My girlfriends would have shit fit too, if they saw me hanging around with a musclebound moron like. We went on several calls were I had to hide my hard on and her panties were more than damp. One day in the middle of a hot summer as the evening finally brought on cooler temperatures we were dispatched to a hospital to take a patient home from there. We brought the stretcher to the floor only to find the patient wasn’t ready to go and had another 45 minutes before she could. We decided to not tell our dispatch and relax until the patient was ready to go. We told the nurse at the desk we.