Room 2D

Photo-story from Janus 83 featuring lovely Page 3 girl Vida Garman as Dulcie. Pushing a broom. Dulcie in overalls. Tat. Sweat. Hair tied back with a scrappy ribbon. The floorboards and walls are bare. Stark. He will bark at me: ‘Work!’ He looks through the door into the room. Sees her stooping, lacklustrely prodding the bristles against the floor. Poor! Idle! What are muscles and sinews for? A roar: ‘Put some effort into it!’ He marches in and stands severe behind her ‘You’re not even trying! I get the impression you hardly care! But you’d better, my girl — oh, you’d better!’ She reapplies herself to her task, leans down, shoves the broom a little harder. Having him standing there like that, acutely critical of her every movement, makes her legs feel watery and her whole self cumbersome and clumsy. Under his censorious glare Dulcie strives to do what she feels is her best, making little grunting sounds to show hi...

From Blushes 30 The summer of 1940 was a strange time. Not only were the German armies pouring across Europe, leaving a trail of destruction, but many people found themselves uprooted from their usual surroundings and involved in unusual adventures. Peter Wilson was one of these. Whilst waiting to go into the Army, he answered an advertisement requiring a tutor for six months at an address in Southern Ireland. He was accepted for the post, the pay was good, and, a week later, he arrived at Strathbally Castle to find that his job was to teach two girls. They were the nieces of Lady Strathbally, the owner of the castle and a widow. Their parents were in Singapore. Peter was alarmed to discover that both girls were almost as old as he; old enough, indeed, to be in the services had they been in England. But they were not, and Lady Strathbally was determined that their education should be continued. His employer made it perfectly c...