'Ladies, please, settle down now. Thank-you. Now, ladies, as you have shown me the generosity of travelling all the way out here to spend your valuable time with me this evening, first of all allow me to return that courtesy by introducing myself. My name is Doctor Thornton Ignatius Tolliver. Scientist, inventor, formulator of miracle medical concoctions designed to inspire and enhance the act of love. I trust, ladies, that I can rely on your complete discretion, as my products are somewhat scandalous in nature. They deal with the libido, the drive within all of us to satisfy the desire for sexual relief. We harbour this desire for days, weeks, months even. And, I'm certain you will agree with me when I propose that when that itch needs scratching, it needs doing so thoroughly!'
After a pause, Bronagh called out from within the hotel room closet. 'Do I come out now?'
'No, Miss Kelly, that was merely a pause for effect,' Tolliver replied, frustrated by the interruption to this run-through. 'I expect cheers or applause at this point in my address.'
Bronagh sighed. 'Well get on with it, there's barely enough room in here for one person, let alone a person with bosoms the size of mine.'
'You were the one who insisted on going in there to change, Miss Kelly.'
Bronagh sighed from behind the walnut door. 'I accept that. But simply having agreed to address your own frequent libidinous cravings by means of intermammary congress at any time of your choosing does not mean I will go about every other piece of clothes-less business in front of you.'
'I'll be seeing those peachy bosoms soon enough,' Tolliver said with a shrug, and returned his attention to memorizing the speech.
Peachy! Bronagh looked down at her chest, wrapped in a thin oriental-patterned bathrobe and dimly illuminated by the daylight seeping through the cracks in the closet's construction. The metaphor was well-suited as far as the pale colour, silken texture and unyielding density were concerned - assuming that this hypothetical peach were a sufficiently underripe white variety. But if only they were that small! She stopped herself in this line of thinking. Her bosoms had got her into this adventure, and she was willingly going along within. Happily, even. Nothing could be worse than the drudgery and emotional abuse of her "marriage" to Donald, and if acquiescing to Doctor Tolliver's baffling proclivity for spending his generous issuance by means of having his prodigious member massaged between those melon-sized peaches that jutted in defiance of gravity from her torso, then that was, all things considered, a small price to pay. Perhaps, even, if she could develop a taste for this lewd but - she had to acknowledge - actually quite harmless act herself, then the joke would be on Tolliver. As her small nipples grazed the walnut wood through the soft silk, she felt that tingle radiate outwards and inwards toward her thorax, and made a mental note to explore the potential mutual benefits of penis-to-bosom stimulation. This worldly "orgasm" thing which men experienced so frequently and messily, an equivalent of which other women claimed to possess experience and which Tolliver was perpetually promising them - guaranteeing, even - was something that had never knowingly happened to Bronagh, sexually experienced though her limited number of marital encounters with Donald had, technically, rendered her. If she had indeed experienced one of these orgasms, then she wondered what all the fuss was about. Some form of drastic sexual awakening presumably still awaited her.
After a journey first up river and thereafter across land by seemingly every mode of transport (the cabin of the Areola had at one point been loaded into a steam locomotive carriage), the two unlikely business associates had arrived at the Doctor's next scheduled destination, the trading junction town of Mercy. They had signed in to a small hotel under the names Mr and Mrs Tolliver. Tolliver himself had switched a ring to his left ring finger by way of completing the subterfuge; Bronagh, whose actual wedding band was of course now lost in the ash-grey sand of Old Cannon Town, had worn her green satin gloves to conceal its absence from her own finger.
The sales roadshow was two days hence, in order to provide time for word of its nature to get around the female population. With Bronagh's help, ready-printed posters, pamphlets and flypapers advertising the event (and produced on an ingenious miniature printing press on board the Areola) were distributed and displayed in locations that would bring them to a woman's attention, but most likely leave them ignored by men.
That part of the day's work now behind them, Tolliver and Bronagh were now back in their suite at the hotel and undertaking a dry-run of the presentation which they were soon due to give together. The presentation was to involve Doctor Tolliver describing the perfect bosom to a - hopefully - rapt audience of vain women, the surprise climax of which verbose ode to the buxom womanly form at its most desirable would be the unveiling of Bronagh herself, fully nude so as to eliminate any suspicion of a discreet support garment hoisting aloft a bosom which would be loudly advertised to be not the lascivious work of the Creator but the result of regular slathering with Doctor Thornton Ignatius Tolliver's patented Miracle Bosom Balm.
And this was how Bronagh now found herself vying with that monumental bosom for space in the cramped wooden closet of Doctor Tolliver's room in the hotel suite.
Tolliver cleared his throat and continued. 'Picture, ladies, if you will, the perfect pair of breasts. Now, I know what you're thinking, that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and so on and so forth, but I am not talking about beauty. I am talking about perfection. I am talking about classicism, of the likes studied since antiquity by the great artists. Objective and empirical. To the trained, erudite eye, of course, true perfection is also beautiful. You can have beauty without perfection, but you cannot have perfection without beauty, and it is this aesthetic elegance which I ask you to conjure up before your mind's eye. And in case you are having difficulty conceiving of such sculptural pulchritude, may I present to you... the perfect bosom!'
Bronagh arched her back to let her protuberant, robe-shrouded bust nudge open the closet doors and took a step out into the daylit room. Unexpectedly, Tolliver, standing before the mirror, had in fact unveiled an artist's easel upon which a drawing was pinned to a board.
'Not yet, Miss Kelly,' Tolliver said, unable to resist a brief lip-licking glance at Bronagh's jutting globes of floral silk. 'First I will explain the principles of mammary perfection by means of these diagrams, then I will introduce you as the living embodiment of those very principles.'
'Oh, I see,' said Bronagh, still a little confused about the order of things, which Tolliver appeared to be making up as he went. Now temporarily out in the open, Bronagh squinted across the room at the diagram placed atop the easel. 'Is that a drawing of me?'
'It is, yes,' said Tolliver, a stiff smile of pride breaking through his mild annoyance at being interrupted again. 'I took some inspiration from Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.'
Bronagh had no idea what that was but had no intention of giving Doctor Tolliver the satisfaction of professing her ignorance. The more she looked, the more she recognised herself in the two drawings, one depicting her hourglass form from the front, the other from the side. Her breasts, hips, and bottom looked enormous, especially as shown in the side view. 'When did you draw these? Have you been stripping me nude as I sleep again?'
'I assure you, Miss Kelly, I drew these from memory. The magnificence of your physique has been imprinted indelibly upon my mind from the very first time I saw those sweeping curves in the flesh.'