The summer vacation started and I got used to the pattern of my new home. The food was fine it was such a contrast to my old life and home!

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I had managed to bring my precious mail order catalogs along with me in a suitcase and they now were in my fine high-boy in my new and well furnished room. Once when I was busy with them, and gloating over each and every word and picture, I thought I heard a sound in the hall. Cora and Alice were out, so I thought it was my imagination. I had left my door ajar in my hurry and anyway the house was empty - or so I thought.

At dinner Alice and Cora acted amused and like they had a secret that was theirs alone! I was treated with more than my due. I was helped and treated like I was made of glass by them both! In the living room where Alice and I generally went in the evening to sit and hold hands, kiss and talk and pet in our innocent ways, there was no change. In fact Alice was nicer than ever and so terribly considerate, it was al- most as if our positions were reversed and that she was the boy and I the girl! That night when I went to my room to go to bed, I was embarrassed and surprised to find that my bed now had silk sheets and that my pillows were bordered with lace! I asked Cora about this and she replied: "My darling, you see we want you to have the best, the gentle things, the atmosphere of softness". This was all a bit beyond me but she told me that I would understand it all in due time! Well, in time to come I did learn a little about phychology and knew what was what!

Alice and myself were told to call Cora "Miss Cora" as she did not wish us to call her mother. This was okay with us of course and it was all sort of chummy with us three. Miss Cora was a well corsetted, buxom lady and dressed to per- fection. Oh, how lacy were her things, how gorgeous were her long legs! Alice also dressed to perfection. I was full of desires, thrills and burning pleasure all the time! Well, one day I was alone at home and Alice had put the wash out. She had said to me: "Oh come on Ellsworth and