What with one thing and another it was quite late before Jim had finished all his tasks and, by the time he had got home, he was straight off to bed. However it was quite a while before he could sleep. The cage around his penis seemed extra troublesome that night and that, combined with the way that, in his mind, he could still feel the flick of Miss Worthing's riding crop against his buttocks, meant that he was tossing and turning for quite a while. The frustration was really getting to him; his testes were aching and he wished he could do something about it and he wondered vaguely if she appreciated his sacrifice.
His frustration level had hardly diminished when Miss Worthing came to inspect him the next morning and she noticed that his penis was semi erect, or as much as it could be within the cage.
"Hmm... You look a little... uncomfortable," she commented as she fondled his testes. "Am I cruel to keep you caged up like this? It is for your own good, you know."
"Please, Miss Worthing..." Jim started but again, he wasn't sure what to say.
"Hmm...?" Miss Worthing's fingertips stroked him gently.
"Please, I want to wear the cage... for you, I mean... but... but..." Jim stammered.
"But a young man like you finds it hard not to have relief every now and then. Is that it?" she suggested.
"Yes, Miss Worthing," Jim replied, relieved that she understood.
"Then you had best try asking nicely." She let go of him and stood back pointing to the ground in front of her. Jim got down off the box and knelt before her, leaning forward to kiss the toes of her shoes.
"Please, Miss Worthing," he begged, "please take pity on your stable boy. I need to come so badly. I don't think I can take another day without..."
"Do you deserve to come?" Miss Worthing asked.
"No, Miss Worthing," Jim admitted. "I only ask... beg... because I need to come so badly."
"Well, you can go on needing, at least for a while," Miss Worthing was suddenly stern. "Your housework was distinctly below par yesterday; maybe this will be an incentive for you to do better today. Now I've wasted more than enough time on this." She sat down and stretched out her legs. "Come along, sort out my boots."
Jim shuffled round to fetch the boots and kneel before her. Once he had slipped off her shoes she wiggled her stockinged toes against his groin making Jim's penis strain uncomfortably against the cage.
"Maybe, if you're good today, who knows, maybe I will take pity on you," she smiled down at him, "you'll just have to wait and see."
"Of course, Miss Worthing," Jim replied as he reached for her boots.
For the rest of the morning Jim was far too busy to care about anything but keeping up with the demands of the girls as they arrived to take their horses out. It would seem that, now that they were in the school holidays, many of the girls planned on spending nearly every day down at the stables. Jim, off his own bat, set up a holiday list so that he would know which owners were away so as to be able to schedule the stables around this. He ended up with a piece of paper tacked to one of the uprights in the main stable block and, at half past eleven he was chasing up yet another lost bit of tack when he found Miss Worthing reading it.
"Did you organise this?" she asked.
"Yes, Miss Worthing; I hope you don't mind," he replied.
"No, not at all; it's very good, very good indeed. Who knows, maybe you will get lucky tonight," she laughed. "Now, I want you up at the house. You'll find a basket of washing in the utility room and, whilst that's on the go, you can wipe down the bathrooms. OK?
"Of course, Miss Worthing," Jim hurried off to obey and, five minutes later he was standing in the utility room dressed only in his panties and apron staring at the basket of washing. He knew even less about this than about ironing but he found the instructions on the back of the box of powder and, after sorting the dirty clothes into suitable piles, soon had things on the go. Then he went to the downstairs bathroom and, after a little searching, found the cleaning things in the cupboard under the sink.
As he scrubbed away he found that there was something about cleaning Miss Worthing's house that felt... right. He'd never been much of a one for housework and, if his mother had asked him to clean the bathroom at home he would have objected strongly but this was very different; he really wanted to do his best and not just because he had hopes of some relief later. He was still scrubbing away when he heard the washing machine go into its spin cycle and he went downstairs to empty it. He took the clothes out to the back garden and was hanging them on the line when Miss Worthing appeared. He turned and gave her a curtsey.
"How are you getting on?" she asked.
"I'm about half way through," Jim replied. He wished he could say that he was finished but he knew he had to tell the truth.
"Good. I'll be back in an hour to check up on you."
"Yes, Miss Worthing," Jim said and, with another curtsey, he went back to the washing.
He was pretty pleased with the state of the bathrooms by the time he'd finished. He'd got all the porcelain gleaming and the chrome taps as shiny as new. He went back down to the utility room and was tidying around there when Miss Worthing came in through the back door.
"All done?" she asked.
"Yes, Miss Worthing."
"Well, stop and have some lunch with me. Don't worry, the stables will look after itself for five minutes. The girls know to come to the house if there's a real panic." Miss Worthing went to the bread bin and fetched out a crusty loaf. Then from the fridge she found white wine, cheese and butter whilst instructing Jim to find the Branston in the larder. They had barely sat down when there was a knock at the back door. Jim jumped up, more than aware of his state of undress.
"Don't worry," Miss Worthing laughed. "There's only one person who comes to the back door with a knock like that. Go and answer it."
Jim got up and nervously went to the door, opening it a crack and peering round it. Mrs Johnson stood there waiting patiently.
"Please come in, Mrs Johnson," Jim said, giving a curtsey. Mrs Johnson swept past him into the kitchen.
"Love the apron," Mrs Johnson said to Miss Worthing. "Let me guess, you've got him doing the housework now."
"Only while Mrs Brown is on her hols," Miss Worthing replied. "Have some bread and cheese."
Jim fetched a spare plate and glass as Mrs Johnson sat down at the table.
"My, you have got him trained," she said. "How about lending him to me again; I could do with having the housework done."
"Housework! That's what you've got that au-pair for. You'd want Jim for something quite different and, no, you're not having him." Miss Worthing was mock stern.
"Spoilsport!" Mrs Johnson retorted. "Anyway, I came to check up on whether you still wanted me for training tonight."
"Yes, please. Around about eight if you can."
"No problem. Now what's the goss?"
Miss Worthing and Mrs Johnson discussed the news of the village almost as if Jim weren't there and he felt a bit of a spare wheel so he finished off his sandwich and stood up from the table.