ook it first, the other using the same water,
it was a not very big flat tub. I usually took it first, then went
downstairs, and read till breakfast-time, and so got my five or ten
minutes opportunity. But she began to take her bath irregularly, or not
at all, and came down at times so quickly after me, that I was
cautious, and so the opportunities with Mary were lost. She was probably
suspicious, but I never knew.

The scullery or back kitchen-door led up to the garden by a little
flight of steps, and in the summer it was always wide open. Anything let
fall out of the back-window would fall just in the doorway. This gave me
the means of signalling. It was arranged that if Mary heard a penny drop
on to the stones by the door, she was at once to go up quietly to the
parlour, the ground-floor room as said, was divided by folding doors,
in the front was the dining-table and the auspicious sofa, in the back a
small table where we breakfasted.

One morning dressed I waited till the woman stepped into the bath, and
then looking out of the window, dropped a penny. It fell just where Mary
stood cleaning my boots. Then downstairs I cut, and there was Mary in
the parlour waiting. She resisted me, but she wanted it as badly as I
did, and sticking her back against the partition close to the door, so
that we could catch the first sound of any one coming downstairs, we
fucked. My God what a rapid fuck it was, but what enjoyment! it was the
old trick again of but a very few years before in mother's house. Mother
still lived there.

This we did several mornings, then I lost even that opportunity, after
being nearly caught in the act, and with prick throbbing to let out
its sperm, I had barely time to subside into a chair, and take up a
newspaper. That so scared Mary that she would not come up again when I
dropped a penny out of the window.

Then she asked to go out to buy some things, which being granted, again
we spent a jolly hour or so at the baudy house in E.. t. r street. That
night I sat her on my prick, and did her in the cab, I never did so to
her but once. I put her up to asking to go to the post-office with a
letter, it was at about five minutes walk from our house. Close by was
a lane leading to large vegetable market-gardens, and there we took our
pleasure, and were nearly caught at it by a man passing by. I went home
first, and when the door was opened was answered, "The girl has gone to
the post-office, she must have