The Metamorphosis of Lady Barbara Solange Minney Ch. 2
The station cafe was full much to Barbara's annoyance but it was still raining extremely hard so Barbara bought herself a cup of tea. Looking around she saw one table with only one occupant, a woman who seemed, Barbara thought to herself, respectable. After all she was wearing a hat and had gloves a well known mark of respectability!
After asking if she might join her (whatever else, Barbara had the good manners bestowed upon her at the expensive finishing school she had attended) she seated herself at the table and was very pleased to perceive the woman was not smoking. The ashtray was rather too near so Barbara pushed it away from both of them. The other woman smiled and remarked that she did not smoke either.
After a few minutes the woman spoke again remarking on the weather and asked Barbara if she had far to walk.
"Only as far as Mrs. Blocksidges," she replied, "I need a few items."
Oh dear me, is it some time since you last came?" she asked, "Mrs. Blocksidge died some 18 months ago, her beloved Emporium is now a Video Library I am afraid. It's necessary to travel to Bonking Newtown, that's spelt BONNQUIN, there is an Intercity in 10 minutes at 9.30 that will have you there in thirty minutes. You will find a Lingerie Boutique in Tongyn Place, just off Tulips Rd, and by the way that is spelt Twolips Rd, The council there appear to have a peculiar idea of spelling. I am afraid there is no-one of Mrs. Blocksidge's stature in this area these days but you may find what you require.
Barbara decided she had nothing to lose, so finishing her tea, she thanked the woman bought a ticket and waited for the train.
She had taken a taxi to Tongyn Place and was a little taken aback by the appearance of the Boutique. The filmy items in the window did not appear to Barbara to be suitable attire to wear but she thought it was the modern way of attracting younger women. She glanced at the name
Prop Mrs. Indira Luvalingam
, Barbara was unsure but nevertheless opened the door and entered.
Immediately her nostrils were assailed with an alluring perfume that was, at first, difficult to identify but somehow, impossibly it gave her a feeling of well being. Then she realised that it was sandalwood and musk.
"Good morning Madame, may I be of service to you?" A soft voice speaking the most perfect English that Barbara had heard for some time came from an Asian lady of middle years dressed in a Sari, Barbara supposed that she was of Indian descent she was absolutely beautiful and had a red caste mark in the centre of her forehead.
Seeing the enquiring look on the customers face the lady said. "I am Indira Luvalingam the owner, Madame - hopefully I can help you."
Although Barbara did not realise it the feeling of well being was a sensual feeling that she had not felt for years, if ever.
She turned smiling at the proprietor and explained that she had come to buy underwear and explained what she had in mind.
Indira Luvalingam, wise in the ways of ancient India, the god Siva and the goddess Kali recognised in Lady Barbara a frustrated graceless dried up specimen of womanhood. "Mmm" Indira, thought to herself," Unlike some of my more sensual customers this one needs her Yoni excited and yearning for a throbbing Lingum. I think this calls for a tincture of opium, powdered tiger balls, the semen of a rutting stallion and the expressed milk of the female baboon plus the secretions of a female rabbit in heat."
Turning her attention back to Lady Barbara, Mrs. Luvalingum asked if she might take her coat and offered a little light refreshment perhaps a glass of cool tropical fruit juices before they discussed her needs. Lady Barbara gratefully consented and reiterated her requirements. Before answering Indira Luvalingam gave her a glass of the fruit juice plus! As she waited for the offered refreshment Lady Barbara idly glanced at a magazine lying open on the table. The headline caught her eye. Barbara glanced at the date it was in point of fact dated three years earlier - nevertheless Barbara picked up the magazine
Hyderbad Thursday:
An unusual occurrence has enlivened the workaday life of rural Gawalapore. On Monday of this week a young woman of approximately 35 yrs of age has been found living in the jungle together with her 18 yrs old son. From first accounts it appears that the woman is Safin Patel who went missing from her home in Gawalapore some 20 yrs previously. In spite of intensive searches nothing was ever found of the girl. The evidence that this woman is the lost girl is based on the fact that the woman was wearing a bracelet and a necklet which were the property of Safin.
Also in the cave in which the woman was living was found material very similar to the dress Safin had been wearing when she disappeared. Unfortunately this woman appears to have lost the power of speech, to gain attention she barks or howls as a wolf, hyena or dog would do. The young boy with her does appear to be her son and the parents of Safin are overjoyed, being convinced they have found their long lost daughter and found a new grandson.
Test are being conducted at the Institute of Phychoanimalisis in Bombay.