'Did you see Louise?' Tom asked.
'I did,' Sue replied. 'We had coffee.'
'That's nice.'
'Yes, it was.' Sue paused. 'You know ... it's a pity we don't know someone,' she said.
Her husband frowned. 'We know lots of people. Hundreds I should think.'
'For Louise, I mean.'
'In what sense?' Tom asked.
'You know,' his wife said.
'Do I?'
'She's still a comparatively young woman. And since George, she's been, well, single. It's time she had someone to ... well, you know.'
Tom reached under the duvet and ran his fingers lightly up his wife's naked thigh. 'Explore her inner thigh?'
'She's a very attractive woman,' Sue said.
Her husband agreed. 'Extremely attractive.'
'Well, there you are.'
'I'm sure there must be many men,' Tom said, 'who would be very happy to run their fingers along her inner thigh.' His wife parted her legs slightly. 'I'm sure there would be some who would be happy to go even further,' he added, his fingers now lightly brushing his wife's pubic mound. 'Run their fingers through her silky bush perhaps. A little like this.'
'Not possible,' his wife said.
'No?'
'No silky bush,' Sue explained.
'Oh?'
'Louise shaves.'
Tom feigned surprise. 'She told you this? My, my, you girls do have some interesting chats.'
'She showed me.'
'Really.'
'Said she wanted my opinion.'
Tom slid a finger along the cleft of Sue's vulva. 'I see. Or at least I wish I had seen.'
'I bet you do, you bad boy.'
He paused as his finger tip gently circled his wife's clitoris. 'And what was your opinion?' he asked. 'What did you tell her?'
'I told her it looked very smooth'.
'Looked very smooth?'
'Something like that.'
'And did it feel very smooth?'
'Apparently.'
'Just apparently? You seem unsure.'
'Louise said that it felt very smooth.'
'And did you confirm this? Did you gently brush Louise's freshly-shaven mound with your own fair fingertips? Just to check. Just so that you could form a really honest opinion.'
'No.'
Tom sounded genuinely disappointed. 'What a shame. An opportunity missed I think. You could have told me all about it. You could have given me a first-hand report -- a first-hand report of your own fair hand brushing Louise's freshly-shaven mound.' He lightly kissed his wife's neck. 'I'm assuming the mound in question was freshly shaven when she revealed it,' he said.
'I think so.'
'No hint of stubble?'
'Not that I noticed.'
'And where did this revelation take place?'
'In the kitchen.'
'In our kitchen?'
'Yes,' Sue said.
'Well, you know what they say about the kitchen,' Tom said.
'No. What do they say about the kitchen?
'The heart of the house.' And then he added: 'Wherein the freshly-shaved pussy of the beautiful neighbour is revealed.'
Tom continued to run his fingers through his wife's soft pubic hair.
'And what else can you tell me about Louise's pussy?'
'What else?'
'Apart from being smooth. Is it big? Is it small? Loose? Tight?'
'Hmm ... pretty normal.'