My wife teaches dancing of every kind, but with an emphasis on Ballroom Dancing, and has many private pupils as well as classes.
However, she goes under her maiden name of Stella Ryan for professional purposes and not everyone knows that she is married.
Recently, for instance, one of her pupils, Sean, a young man of about our age and about whom she often spoke to me saying that she could fancy him, had asked her a great favour. His wife was away nursing her sick mother, and it was to be his company dance at the weekend and he had no partner. He had asked, as a great favour, whether Stella could oblige by being his partner on that occasion. He said he would pay her a fee if necessary, but she declined that, saying that she was flattered to be asked. However she made no mention of the fact that she was married and would have to ask my permission first, especially as we have a very open marriage and neither of us would ever dream of having to ask the other's permission for anything along those lines.
I actually wondered whether or not there was any ulterior motive in his asking Stella to be his partner, but she knew that not only would I not object, but that I would probably be delighted if he did have something more devious in mind.
On the night in question, therefore, Stella had dressed somewhat provocatively yet still respectable, and even though when Sean arrived in his car to pick her up she introduced me her "brother" the evening passed off, as far as I could gather when she finally came home, quite uneventfully and as decorously as was possible.
That is, apart from a quick fumble as he left her on the doorstep.
I was watching from a darkened room which jutted out in front of the porch and was able to see quite clearly by means of the security light which had automatically switched itself on. As he courteously led her to the door and took the key from her to unlock the door she turned a little expectantly towards him, and he naturally responded by giving her a gentlemanly kiss on the cheek. I watched amusedly as Stella twisted her head slightly as he did this so that her cheek turned away and his lips met hers instead. This action also seemed to encourage him to become a little more daring as he tentatively cupped her breast over her dress, then actually squeezing it a little harder as Stella made no move to restrain him from doing so.
But he seemed to have run out of steam, so to speak, or probably did not want to push his luck on this first meeting outside their professional acquaintance. He stepped back again and politely bade her goodnight before returning to his car.
Stella, on coming into the house, confirmed that what I had seen was the furthest he had attempted all evening, saying that he had behaved like a true gentleman throughout.
But it was later the following week that their relationship changed to a friendlier one.
Stella came home one evening to say that Sean had had his private lesson as usual, but that at the end of his lesson, her last of the day, instead of the usual bidding one another goodnight he took more of the initiative by actually kissing her once again in the same way that he had done on our doorstep, by kissing fully on the lips and at the same time cupping and cuddling her breast. Unfortunately, she told me, unlike the previous occasion, this time she was wearing a bra, and so neither of them could feel the same enjoyment as before.
But he actually went a little further by asking Stella if she would consent to his inviting her out to dinner in order to say thank-you for being his official companion at his works dance the previous week.
Stella told me that she had instantly agreed and had sealed the arrangement by her kissing him instead of the other way round as it had been until now, opening her mouth slightly in order to give him a sample of what he might expect on Saturday night.
After finishing her Saturday classes she had a couple of hours or so to spare before Sean would be picking her up, and so we spent some of that time in careful preparation.
She did not want to appear to be too forward, but nevertheless we wanted to give him some encouragement, and so, after she had bathed and I had performed the weekly ritual of shaving and powdering her genital area, we decided on her mode of dress.
We decided that she should go bra-less once again, but so as not to appear too brazen yet encouraging at the same time we agreed that she should wear stockings and suspenders, sexy yet sensible knickers, no underslip but a dress which would unbutton if necessary, yet long enough to just stop above her knees rather than a more revealing miniskirt.
Just before Sean was due to arrive I gave her a quick peck on the cheek so as not to smear her make-up, and we knocked back a quick drink as a toast to what, we hoped, would be a really entertaining evening for her, and eventually for me when she came back home to tell me the entire story.
The rest of this story is compiled from what Stella told me on her arrival home again.