Letters from Blushes 23
Dear Sir, I refer to your excellent Issue 22, and in particular to a letter from one ‘J.S’, headed Congratulations , which has sparked off my interest enormously! What a splendid idea, that readers should ‘adopt’ a suitably youthful and attractive teenager of their acquaintance and then report to other readers on their plans for dealing with her in loco parentis , as it were! And what a fellow this J.S. is! I can just imagine him chatting amiably with his ‘sweet, sizably-bottomed’ Miranda, playing the kindly neighbour or whatever he is, and all the while picturing that pretty face distorted with crying and wet with tears, that bottom squirming across his lap and, ‘in respect of food and board,’ the delightful Miranda spreadeagled across her bed making the payments that J. S. said he would expect her to make, ‘when he felt like it.’ You can’t trust anyone, can you! The one omission from J.S.’s letter was a photograph of Miranda. What a pity he couldn’t have sneaked a snap of her,