"Here get that down yer."
"You trying to get me drunk, Joe?"
"The bubbles get right up yer nose."
"Well it'd only go flat, shame to waste it." As Dolly threw it down her throat, "I could get used to this."
"I'd drink it from your slipper."
The open champagne bottle finished, they started on the cider, brought in for the surrounding working folk.
"I prefer the champagne," hiccoughed Dolly.
"You, my goddess are a woman of discerning taste."
And Joseph popped a cork on a bottle of champagne. "Joseph!"
"You've worked hard this last week, you deserve it."
"But still ..." The golden bubbles dancing before her eyes seduced her into silence, a rare thing!
"Put your feet up, on my lap." They sat in the two chairs opposing each other by the fireplace. Dolly placed her surprisingly dainty booted feet onto Joe's lap.
Joe undid the lacing and removed her boots.
"Oh, you daft bugger!" Dolly said, as Joe poured champagne into her boot and supped.
"Ambrosia, nectar of the gods."
"Well, if you think I'm doing that with your boots, you can think again."
Joe took her foot in his hand and rubbed the stockinged foot, massaging the overworked feet.
"Ooh that feels good, Joe."
"Give us the other one."
Dolly sipped Champagne with her feet up, and Joe rubbing her tootsies; she felt comfortable, relaxed. Joe lit his pipe with Dolly's small feet resting on his lap. His face hidden in a cloud of smoke.
"You, Dolly have the most beautiful feet. Cinderella wouldn't fit into your shoes."
Dolly smiled, -S'pose I do have dainty feet. And she looked at her feet resting on Joe's lap and turned them a little bit here, and pointed her toes. -I do, never thought of it before.
"Shame to keep them covered." And he tugged at the stocking's toe.
"You can't pull them off from there, just like that."
"I can't?"
"You have to undo the button."
"Where's that then?"
Dolly raised her skirt and showed the top of her stocking which finished just below her knee and twisted into a knot with a button in it.
"Oh," he said, "I see that now, would have been awkward." Joe's trousers tautened to impersonating a tent pole after catching sight of Dolly's drawers. He put his pipe on the hearth and reached over, "How's it work then?" His hand coming to rest on her knee.
"You just untwirl it, like this and undo the button and then they just come down."
"I'll try it on the other one, now you've done that one. Ah, bit fiddly."
"You get used to it."
"S'pose so," he said, and he removed her stocking and hung them over the arm of his chair. Joe rubbed her naked feet. "Prettiest toes I've ever seen," he said, as he raised her little foot to his mouth and sucked her big toe. He nibbled along all the way to the pinkie. Dolly sipped her champagne. Joe pressed his thumb into the instep of her foot. He straightened her leg and brought it to rest on his shoulder and then sucked and nibbled the left. Dolly's skirts had slid up, and Joe was happy to view her knees; and then as he moved her other leg to nibble the other footsie he caught a glimpse of lace.
So now, Joe had Dolly's feet on both his shoulders. -Now comes the tricky bit, one false move. I'm doomed! Dolly had closed her eyes. This didn't mean she wasn't alert, a sleeping giant. Joe massaged her ankle, this time her calf, and every so often, as he pushed upwards his fingers would brush her knee, and touch the lace edging on her drawers. Joe dragged his chair a little closer to Dolly.
"What are you doing?" Dolly asked, one eye open.
"Making myself comfortable, I'm at full stretch here."
Dolly closed her eye. Joe had moved his chair forward, he had her knees either side of him, he was now if he edged forward between her legs. Joe leaned forward. This time as he rubbed, he allowed his fingers to rove higher, under the lace; touching the soft, warm, flesh of her thigh, comfy as a pillow, soft as marsh mallow.
He brushed his fingers over the drawers and between her legs. These wonderful drawers with their open crotch. He found the slit in her drawers his finger rested. Dolly was not offering any resistance to his fondlings, so urged on. His hand poked through the split in her open crotch drawers. He touched her curly hair. But alas, that was as far as his curious probing fingers could go. Her wondrous thighs clamped shut the object of his desire by the protective arms of the welsh stick chair. Joe had to have her off that seat, but he was also aware that to disturb her reverie could change her mood.