Further Education
From Blushes 5 Further Education Miss Kirby’s ‘phone call had caught the girls’ step-father in a bad mood; ‘I should like to take the opportunity presented by the forthcoming half-term holiday to keep your daughters at school for some concentrated work on their behinds — I mean, on what they’ve fallen behind in.’ The girls’ step-father had neither smiled at the initial pomposity of the opening of that sentence nor frowned at the grammatical uncertainty of its conclusion. The Freudian slip in the middle he noted without the amusement it would ordinarily have afforded him; he knew anyway that Miss Kirby’s methods tended to centre around naked, well-thrashed bottoms — just what his girls needed in his opinion. ‘Fine,’ he’d said and hung up. Carte blanche assured, Miss Kirby informed the school caretaker that she would be commandeering the disused older wing of the school for the weekend. He was to find two beds, with mattresses...