Chapter 6
"Please, Catherine, you must help me," Hope spoke the words with such feeling that it was almost a cry of despair.
"Of course I shall, my dear. Come to my room and we'll talk as much as you want. Still, I'm not at all confident I have the wisdom to help you."
Classes were over for the day and there was more than an hour before the list would be posted for evening discipline. It would give them lots of time to talk. Hope wondered if she would be able to think clearly enough to disclose all the confusion she felt in her mind and her heart.
"Now then, dear," Catherine began as they sat on her bed. "Try to get right down to the root of your problem and tell me all about it. If I can possibly help you in any way, you know I shall."
"Oh thank you, Catherine. You're so sweet. Truly, you the the only person to whom I'd dare unburden my mind right now."
"Come, come, dear. I'm sure it isn't that bad. Just start talking even if you feel all mixed up. We can work things out as we go along."
Slowly and with great nervousness, Hope began to pour out the story of her doubts and guilt. Catherine listened with infinite patience and spoke only to seek clarification of some point the young woman made without proper clarity.
"You poor dear," Catherine commiserated when Hope ran out of words at last, "you really have been carrying around a head full of troubles."
"Can you understand at all though?" Hope asked in the same tone of desperation.
"I think I can, dear, but we can't cover everything at once. Let's take it one step at a time and look at things in some kind of order."
"Oh bless you, Catherine. I just knew I could count on you to help keep me from getting out of my mind."
"There, there now pet. Let's not make things sound any worse than they are already."
"Could they be any worse?" Hope almost sobbed in bitter frustration.
"O' course they could. Now you just listen to me for a while. It sounds to me like you are a dedicated teacher. There's no reason for shame in that. At the same time, it seems that you have discovered how good sex can be and you don't want to give it up. Am I right so far ? "
"Yes, you're right, but hearing you say it tells me I have myself trapped."
"Nothing of the sort. Let's forget about everything else for now and concentrate on those two basic points. If we can work them out, the rest will just fall into place."
"I don't see how that can be possible, Catherine dear, but please let's try."
"All right, here we go. So you are a dedicated teacher and want to help those who have no other chance. That's one very good point in your favor. I agree that the people here, the students I mean, represent all that is decadent about our England.
"After they graduate from here, they will go to spend lives of decadence as their parents now do. A few of them may even make some contribution to the country, but I doubt that many will. All right, let us assume we're wasting our time teaching them."
"You see, Catherine, you confirm the very things that are bothering me."
"Just listen to me, young lady," Catherine pretended sharpness, "and reserve your negative comments until I have finished.
"Until you came to this school, you had no qualifications as a teacher. Yes, you had, I am sure the knowledge and the intelligence, but you lacked the credentials. This is more than-likely the only school in the country that would have taken you on staff and that was done because of your beauty. "Now don't be offended. I know you have a good mind and will probably be a brilliant teacher. In order to get a post as a teacher, one needs better qualifications that you were able to get. Miss Carter hired you because of your beauty of face and form and also because she sensed that you could be a good teacher.
"Now then, I think we have established that point, let's go on from there. Your luscious little body got you this big chance when nothing else would have. If Miss Carter wants to cash in my taking you to bed with her, I think she has every right. Don't you?"
"I guess so. But what about all the other things I do? What about James, for instance?"
"What about James indeed. Having been introduced to real sex in a way that only Elizabeth Carter can do it, you would be a fool for blaming yourself because you like it. All right then., you're not a fool so you like it. Around you, there are hundreds of potential sexual partners. What are you supposed to do, ignore them ? "
"But is it right, Catherine?"
"Is it? Who knows? They're a bunch of hot little twats and stiff young cocks. Their parents live a life of doing nothing better than buggering and screwing their servants and their neighbors. Their children are the same. If they weren't doing those things here, they would be doing them somewhere else. We do them no harm at all. Can you understand that much?"
"Yes, I think I can, but it doesn't justify what
I'm doing."
"Give me time. Very well then. We have established that the school has given you the opportunity to qualify as a first class teacher, that you are not wrong in enjoying sex and that you are not harming the students. Right so far?"
"I think so," Hope answered tentatively.
"You think so? If you don't start showing a little more co-operation, I shall turn you over my lap and spank that delightful ass of yours as if you were a student."
"You wouldn't," Hope declared.
"Indeed I would, dear. There is a particular pleasure in spanking older girls on their firm, young behinds, but I find an even greater pleasure in spanking a beautiful mature woman such as you. Don't stretch your luck too thin."
"All right," Hope smiled. "I'll be good."
"Now then, one thing remains. Suppose you were to stay here for perhaps two years. By then, you would still be only twenty-two, you would have excellent qualifications that would get you a post in any school anywhere in the world, and at the same time, you would have gotten quite accustomed to sex so that you would know what you want."
"You do make it sound very impressive, Catherine, but what if by then I decide I like this life of sex so much that I don't want to leave ? "
"That's no problem. You will make your decision then and will have enjoyed two years of peace of mind while learning to be a very good teacher. Now if you think I'm wrong, show me."
"Gee, Catherine, I can't. You make it all sound so very logical and simple. Why couldn't I figure that out by myself if I'm as bright as you say?"
"Because you silly little goose, you're only human. We can't reason away our own problems because we are always too close to them. It can sometimes be very easy for another to see what we cannot."
"Then help me with something else, Catherine. What can I think about the fact that many of these students are beaten when they do not deserve it?"
"You can think that there are good teachers and bad ones in any school. Discipline is an important part of education. Students must be punished. Some teachers punish for their own enjoyment whether it is deserved or not. That, of course, is wrong."
"But I have to be truthful, Catherine, I find myself enjoying it when I spank them."
"Of course you do and so do I, but that is no crime. I think you would find that most parents get a thrill out of baring the bottoms of their children and spanking them. There is something about the feel and the sound of your hand slapping a nice smooth ass that has to be enjoyable. Don't ever be ashamed of that, my darling little goose."
"Can I trust myself to spank only when it is deserved ? "
"I think you can. I have a lot of faith in you. Tell me dear, you've spent a day in my classes, did you see me spank anyone who didn't deserve it?"
"Oh no, I think you're the fairest teacher in the school by far."
"Then do the same and you won't have a thing to worry about. In the meantime, when you are going to spank someone, go ahead and enjoy yourself."
"Oh, Catherine, you can't know how much you've helped me. I don't know how I can ever thank you for all you've done."
"Don't you? I'll show you, dear. Stand up and raise your clothes like a naughty student."
With a little yelp of delight, Hope quickly did as she was told. A moment later, she settled herself across the woman's lap with her delicious ass nicely posed.
Catherine gave her a long, deliberate spanking that left her ass cheeks glowing. After that, they undressed and came together on the bed to suck each other off.