LADY ANN'S EXTENDED HOLIDAY
Original Story by Eric - Expanded Edition by Emma
ENGLAND 1908.
It seemed to Burt that his life was always spent with his face pressed
against the glass.
He worshipped Lady Ann Neville more than he did god in church. But Burt
was only the stable hand at her father's vast estate. His job was to
muck out and groom the horses and perform manual labour around the
estate. He was forbidden even from entering the manor house. He scraped
an existence in the reflected light from this affluent and powerful
family but he could never be one of them.
Still, he had his dreams - dreams that one day she would smile at him
and say that - no it was too stupid for words. The distance between them
was greater than from here to the China. He might as well howl at the
moon like a dumb animal. Lady Ann had hardly noticed him while they were
growing up. Why would she notice him now? He was dirty and coarse; a big
hairy man who couldn't even talk in a gentile way. She would never
consider him as a friend, let alone a husband.
Burt hurried away from the window - he might lose his place if he was
caught and that would mean a life of destitution or worse: a job in the
pit, hammering at a coal face hundreds of feet below the ground, barely
seeing sunlight and dying young. No. He couldn't possibly risk his
position here. He was little more than a slave but anything was better
than being down the mine.
He went back to the stables and took care of the horses and cleaned the
stalls. He took extra care of Lady Ann's fine filly, fondly imagining
her taking the horse out next day.
That night Burt's lusty girl friend Mavis came over to play fun and
games, showing off her legs and her cleavage. She really enjoyed his
virility and it helped him to forget for a moment his hopeless love for
Lady Ann.
"Ey up Burt but you are you well endowed! Just like the stallions in the
stables!" She giggled, covering her mouth, only illustrating how
different she was from the refined lady of the manor in her voice,
accent and ways.
Burt was pleased and enjoyed himself, but Mavis was so common and crass
- nothing like Lady Ann and he found himself imaging it was that
beautiful lady underneath him, kissing him as he pumped into her; loving
him!
* * *
In the castle Lady Ann was seething!
"Father you are impossible! You actually expect me to spend two boring
weeks with my dull old grandmother in London! There would be nothing to
do there - no riding - no balls as we're still in morning for
grandfather! Damn it all, Father, you didn't even like the old fossil!
We have a month more before we finish the official mourning period! You
are being most unreasonable!"
The Earl tried to keep calm. "Rail all you want, Ann, but you are going
and that's that! I don't think a two week visit with your grandmother an
unreasonable duty."
Lady Ann stormed out of the room. Life was so impossible! Constraints
were all around her. She was so bored with being a lady! "God! I would
just like to cut loose and be slutty or vulgar!" she said with
vehemence. "Being a lady - even being a woman is as confining as my
corsets! Life is bloody unfair!"
She set her maid Betty to packing. There was no way she could get out of
the visit.
Maybe a good gallop would set her mind more at rest. Her maid, Betty,
helped her into her riding habit. Ann felt better after she bitched at
Betty for her clumsiness. "You idiot girl! Hurry up! You may not have
anything better to do with your life but I do!"
"Sorry m'lady. I didn't mean nowt by it."
"And keep your mouth shut! Your crass dialect offends my ears. You need
to mind your place. You're far beneath me on the social ladder for a
reason. Just get on with your work and then get out of my sight."
At the stables, she called out for Burt and he brought out her Rosebud.
He was dressed as always in his coarse threadbare clothes, striding
through the muck without care. He probably didn't notice. He spent his
life in muck, just like one of the pigs in the field.
She was well aware of his hopeless love and worship for her. It amused
her but there was no chance on God's green earth that she would ever
give him what he wanted. She had to admit that there was something
attractive about his huge muscular frame and broad shoulders though. In
her very darkest fantasies she might wonder how it would feel to be
taken up in those hard rough hands, to feel his thick moustache tickling
her face as he kissed her... But only in a fantasy.
It was laughable really. The stink alone would negate all possibility of
romance. He was nothing but a caveman compared to her and a far cry from
the foppish and dull, but well-moneyed suitors who called on her from
time to time.
Still it was nice to fantasize occasionally. Though if anything, it
illustrated more the limitations of her position. She couldn't make love
with anyone she chose, whenever she chose. She had to remain chaste
until such time as a husband was chosen for her. It was oftentimes
frustrating.
But she enjoyed teasing Burt. It was gratifying to have men, especially
burly strong men like Burt so ruled by her.
"Get on with it Burt you oaf! Hold Rosebud steady! Come on you idiot!"
She climbed onto Rosebud's back and as she turned the horse to trot away
she smiled at Burt, toying with him. "Thank you. That was wonderful.
You're so strong and masculine. I couldn't have held him steady myself."
He coloured from the attention, immediately ill at ease and confused and
Ann rode away grinning to herself at how diverting it was to have him
and ever other man she met so controlled by her whim.
But riding sidesaddle was such a bore and she quickly became irritated!
She would have ridden astride if she could. But no - a lady never did
anything comfortable! A lady had to act with decorum at all times! She
was sick of the rigid control her life was under, forced to act the
lady!
She galloped like the wind for her favorite quiet spot by the stream and
took a delicate seat on a grassy verge in the sunshine. As she sat
there, wondering how to get out of the visit with her grandmother, her
idle eyes saw something gleam at the bank, just under the water line.
She crept down and picked it up. It couldn't be! But it was! It was the
Medallion of Zulo! She had read about it, but had thought it a fable.
The possibilities ran through her mind in an instant.
With this trinket she could switch places with anyone she chose! It was
her way out of this whole tedious trip she was to be forced into!
But the real question was who could she become?
Her father? The thought of bullying him as she had been bullied was
gratifying, but she didn't want to be old and he would return the
bullying with interest when she changed back! She shuddered at the
thought.
Her maid? Hardly - the girl was almost as constrained as herself and not
nearly as beautiful. Betty was forever trying to fit into Ann's cultured
house but never able to. No. Swapping places with her would be the worst
of all worlds.
Then her lovely blue eyes gleamed. Of course!
Burt!
The clodhopper would do anything she asked and would keep his mouth
shut. If, in her place, he did something frightful at her grandmother's
then who cared! It would serve the old harpy right.
Ann's lovely mouth grinned full of mischief. Burt had a slutty girl
friend - Mavis; the barmaid in the village - attractive in a vulgar sort
of way with prestigious breasts and a crude mouth. A good time was had
by both according to Ann's maid who whispered how virile Burt was. Ann
got the impression she'd been ridden by him herself in her earlier
years.
Ann felt a rise of sexual excitement - she could have sex without fear
of pregnancy or social status. She could ride astride, be vulgar, drink
too much - even spit! It was too delightful - what a holiday she would
have. It would be a most enjoyable two weeks!
She thought of her grandmother and her stuffy friends dealing with the
new 'Lady' Ann and actually giggled. Then she thought of herself: free
and deliciously lower class and having sex whenever she wanted.
Sex as a man would be interesting, certainly. Just the thought of it
almost made her faint.
Ann frowned - she was to leave tomorrow morning. It didn't give her much
time. She remounted her filly and rode back, first to the house and then
to the barn.
Burt was shoveling dirty hay from the floor of one of the stalls, his
sleeves rolled up past his elbows. She watched him for a few minutes,
the rippling muscles there; the careless attitude he had in his body
language, entirely devoid of decorum. He was the opposite of her. She
had to be standing or sitting with perfect composure at all times. She
couldn't dare relax for a minute.
This was going to be fantastic!
"Burt I wanted to ask a special favor of you," she cooed, startling him.
Burt stumbled all over himself with eagerness, dropping the fork and
flushing again. "Blimey. 'Ow do m'lady. You freet'ned me to death," he
stammered in his lower class Yorkshire brogue. "Anything you want, Lady
Ann!"
Her lovely blue eyes gleamed with amusement and she thought, I wonder
how Burt will like being a female?
"Burt, I know this will sound impossible, but I want you to swap places
and be me for two weeks."
He stared. "But Lady Ann -" his head was in a whirl - it sound like the
fairy tales his old granny - God rest her soul - had told him when he
was a lad.
Lady Ann grimaced impatiently. "Listen, and do what you are told! I will
also pay you ten pounds when it is over."
"Ten pounds?" It was three months wages!
She nodded and held up the medallion. "Come with me."
Ann took the bewildered Burt to a vacation cottage and she went into a
room and came out wearing a dressing gown and nothing else. She was
brimming with mirth and excitement. This was going to be such a riot!
The medallion hung from her lovely neck and Burt stared - it was like a
dream come true, and he almost fainted when she said, "Embrace me!"
Trembling he did so, only hoping she wouldn't feel his hard-on.
Ann felt a sudden lump in her throat as the huge burly man wrapped his
muscular arms around her. For a second she wondered if she was doing the
right thing but immediately dismissed her fears. What could possibly go
wrong? Burt would do anything she commanded. He'd been bred as a
bootlicking and submissive servant his whole life. His brain was trained
to be servile through and through. The idea of possessing this potent
man's physical attributes thrilled her more than anything else ever had.
He felt a tingle and so did she. It was going to work, Ann thought
exultingly.
Burt stared. Lady Ann's aristocratic, beautiful face was changing - her
creamy complexion roughed and she grew taller. Was he - yes he was
shrinking! It was impossible!
Ann felt her form swelling, her height increasing, her muscles firming.
She looked down as her soft slender arms became muscular, as he long
dainty fingers became thick and callused. She reached for her hair, only
to find that it had already vanished; touching only the bristles of a
close-cut man's hairstyle. Her cheeks had always been soft and smooth.
Now they were chiseled and covered in stubble. She fingered the thick
moustache that had sprouted on her upper lip, recognizing it as a symbol
of the manhood she had taken on. She felt overwhelmed by the changes
suddenly; momentarily terrified by the completeness of it; then she felt
exultant again.
Meanwhile, Burt had felt his own muscles softening, his height falling
away. His face became smooth. His arms looked so soft and slender. There
was no hint of muscle definition there, and why would there be? Lady Ann
had never had to do manual work of any kind her whole life.
Burt couldn't believe what was happening to him. He was really changing
into her!
In less than a minute it was over. A man who looked like Burt stood
dressed in Lady Ann's dressing gown and Burt's own clothes hung on him
like a filthy sock on a chicken, his dainty wrists and hands extending
from the dirty rough hewn sleeves. He felt tender breasts rubbing
against his scratchy wool shirt making them itch and, involuntarily, his
hand went to his crotch. His manhood, the organ that Mavis and the other
girls loved so much - the part of him than imbued him with power - was
gone! He felt faint.
"What happened?" he asked and his hand flew to his throat. His voice was
a woman's voice. "Ee by gum! What did ye do to me?"
"The Medallion has switched us around you ignoramus!" said Lady Ann in
Burt's deep voice. But she didn't sound like him. She sounded like one
of the posh gentlemen that visited the house from time to time. "You're
making me look ridiculous in your clothes." She shuddered. "Take them
off at once!"
"But m'lady - "
"Don't be a fool, Burt. You now have my body. I look at it every day."
He started to disrobe, his new face flushing.
"I ain't never seen nowt like this before," grumbled Burt and Ann
frowned. Burt looked like her and he had her voice but his dialect was
every bit as common and crass as it had ever been. It made her realise
that her own speaking voice might need a little dumbing down for her to
not be noticed. She wondered if this would cause problems but shrugged
it away. At worst they would think that "Lady Ann" was playing an
extended joke by imitating the lower orders. They would never imagine
"she" was really a bumbling stable hand.
Ann chuckled, vastly amused by the ungainly motions of the "woman" in
front of her as Burt finally managed to strip the last of his garments
off. Ann looked critically at her body, seeing it from such an angle for
the first time. She smiled and nodded. Everyone was right. She was
certainly the most beautiful woman in the county. Looking at her naked
hips and legs and stomach actually made her feel strange. Pleasant. A
sensation grew and spread from her crotch that she quickly sidestepped
by gathering up her own dress and thrusting it at him.
"Hurry now Burt," she said, "get dressed."
Burt stared, dazed, at the beautiful garment and then did as he was
told, feeling like this had to be a dream. Ann helped to dress the new
woman as he grunted and moaned in a most unladylike fashion when she
tightened the stays. Lady Ann frowned behind Burt's rough face and
gruffly snapped, "Don't do that again. It is most unladylike!"
Burt nodded weakly. He felt like he was losing his wits. He stood before
a mirror dressed like Lady Ann, the dress long, his arms and shoulders
bare. He stared at the Lady Ann in the glass. He touched a smooth cheek
and the beautiful woman did the same. The silk and satins felt at home
on his smooth new body but the sensations were completely unlike
anything he had ever felt before. He had really changed into a woman! He
had really become Lady Ann!
He turned and saw 'himself' hurriedly dressing, feeling a flush of
nerves, his new body trembling before the large male. He suddenly felt
very vulnerable, fully aware how much more powerful this big hairy man
was next to his new female body.
Lady Ann hurriedly explained what he was to do and he nodded
submissively. Then she went into how he should behave.
"Remember Burt - you are now me, Lady Ann Neville. You ought to know how
I and the 'quality' behave - you've been watching me all my life!"
"I'll do me best not to disgrace you, m'lady. I won't do owt wrong.
You'll see."
Ann cringed at the terrible Yorkshire brogue issuing from her beautiful
lips but there was nothing to be done about it now and she was eager to
enjoy her newfound freedom.
"Jolly good! Now run along back to the house - it's almost time for
dinner. Your maid will dress you - tell her you want the red gown and
your mother's diamonds. In your purse I have made up a list of what you
should wear at my - your grandmother's. Study it! Keep your mouth shut
and just look bored; you'll get by famously."
Despite himself Burt grinned. It was so strange to hear himself talking
like a swell!
Ann hid the medallion under the seats of the couch No sense taking any
chances! Burt watched her do it, flabbergasted by the power of the thing
to do this incredible transformation to him.
They left the building together, the big brawny man and the slim
beautiful woman. "Go on now. Toodle pip," said Ann.
"It's a rum do, this, ma'am. The shoe's on the other foot now and no
mistake. I feel right strange in this get up."
"I'm sure you do 'Ann.' But you'll do as I say and go and take your
place as the lady of the manor. Alright?"
"Aye. Ah-reet. Ta'ra then m'lady." Burt walked ahead in ungainly
masculine steps toward the manor house. Ann, in Burt's manly body,
grinned at the departing rear, chuckling to herself at how ridiculous he
looked. Well, what did it matter? It was a hilarious trick she was
playing on all of them.
* * *
After Burt had left in what lately had been her body, Lady Ann grinned
in triumph. That would show her father and her grandmother!
She picked up the sack of coins and bills from its hiding place - fifty
pounds should be more than enough pin money for 2 weeks.
Ann strode out of the cottage grinning to herself, flexing the big
muscles in her arms. The sense of power was incredible! She looked at
her reflection in the window, stroking her bushy moustache. There wasn't
a trace of a woman in the expression. She was a man now, through and
through. She turned to move away and frowned. She noticed a slight
airiness to her movements in the glass; a femininity. That wouldn't do.
It wouldn't do at all.
She forced herself to move in a manly way, her shoulders broad, her feet
widely spaced, her stride long. That seemed to do the trick. Satisfied,
she set off down the lane toward the village, careful to monitor her
gait and keep it as masculine as possible. It wasn't too hard; the body
was used to it. Soon she forgot all about it and it only occurred to her
again when she was almost at the village. She realised that she was
walking like a man without even trying. She'd been so busy chuckling at
what horrors Burt was up to in her body that it had entirely slipped her
mind to keep it up. She was doing it automatically.
She stopped in the middle of the lane and tried for a moment to walk as
she normally would, in a ladylike fashion. It felt immediately
uncomfortable and false; not even familiar. That was odd. But it didn't
matter. Walking like a man was necessary if she was to pull off her
impersonation.
Ann approached the Dog & Pony with some nervousness but steeled herself.
There was no need to worry. As far as anyone in there knew she was just
another illiterate peasant; a salt-of-the-earth commoner with crass
manners and only a life of hard work and poverty before her. They would
have no idea the true identity of the manor-born lady in their midst.
She looked just like one of them. As long as she was in Burt's body she
actually was one of them - there were no two ways about it.
Actually that was a scary thought. She imagined for a second what might
happen if the amulet went missing and she were really stuck like this
for the rest of her days. She shuddered. It didn't bear thinking about.
It was fun to be a man for a short while - to have the freedom she so
much deserved - but she was under no illusions. The minute Burt was back
from her grandmothers he'd be back shoveling the horse dung.
When she went inside the pub the noise and stink were overpowering. Even
though it was early it seemed like almost all the villagers were already
if not tipsy then downright drunk! She squeezed through the crowds with
some disgust to be so close to the commoners and placed some coins on
the bar. "I'll have... a pint of ale if you would be so kind my good man."
She winced inwardly at the sudden hush and strange looks from the barman
and the closest punters at the crisp accent totally counter to the form
she now wore.
"Ye wot?" grumbled the barman.
"Er... Some ale. Please." She did her best to ape the local bumpkin
dialect and blushed at how false it sounded. She'd always thought she
was rather good at her clodhopper impression but now she was one of them
it didn't sound so good. The barman eyed her suspiciously as he poured
her pint. She took it quietly and retired to a corner of the pub to keep
out of the way. She was frightened someone might become violent with
her. She had never been able to stand the sight of blood - especially
her own - and couldn't stand violence of any sort.
Burt's girlfriend Mavis was working the pub, carrying three or four
pints in each hand by the handles. She wore a frivolously slutty dress
that managed to expose her creamy round shoulders, her forearms and a
good deal of her cleavage. Part of Ann found the outfit grossly
inappropriate but part of her couldn't help but be intrigued by it. The
odd sensation she'd felt earlier when looking at Burt in her own naked
flesh started to return and she became very intrigued by the question of
when she'd be able to spend some time alone with the girl later. After
all, sex without consequence had always been part of her plan...
Perhaps sensing her gaze, Mavis came over, grinning lasciviously at the
man she thought was her bedmate. "I've been thinkin' about you all day
luv." She came close as though to whisper, but instead said very loudly,
"And that great big cock o' yours!" Mavis gave Ann's crotch a hard
squeeze and she felt a bright charge of pleasure there, then the slutty
woman threw her head back, exposing her neck and cleavage all the more,
and laughed long and hard. Half the people in the pub who'd overheard
laughed too.
For a moment Ann was furious at the public exposure but found herself
chuckling. What did it matter? It wasn't her reputation being paraded in
front of the punters! After a minute she found herself laughing deeply.
Then guffawing louder than she'd ever allowed herself to do in company
before. This was what it was all about! She took a deep swig of her
beer. "By ecky thump," she cried loudly, "Don't tell all the lasses
darlin' or they'll all want a rogering!"
The whole pub erupted into laughter and Ann laughed too, turning red
faced and throwing back the rest of her pint. She slammed the glass down
on the table and called after Mavis. "Ere, our lass! Fetch us another
one of--"
She paused, perplexed by how much easier she was finding it to imitate
the clodhopper accent.
"Er, be a... a darling... and bring me another glass of beer... please."
The sudden change in accent was unnoticed this time by the laughing
drunkards around her but Ann settled back a little in her seat, feeling
slightly uneasy.
* * *
Burt walked into the castle shaking like a leaf, sure that someone would
yell, "What do you think you're doing, impersonating Lady Ann." But all
the staff bowed and deferred to him. It was so strange. Yesterday he had
tipped a pint of ale with AlBurt the footman and now the man was
servile! Calling him "My Lady". He almost tripped in the skirt going up
the stairs and he flushed.
Slowly, he told himself, small steps and slowly.
In Lady Ann's room, Betty was waiting. She had always been snotty to
him, considering him far beneath her in the social scale. Now she was
all deference and servility! It was kind of fun. He tried to imitate
Lady Ann. "Hurry up girl!"
"Yes, m'lady!"
"The red dress and my mother's diamonds!"
"At once m'lady!"
Soon he was putting on silk stockings and three petticoats. Burt felt
ridiculous, but said nothing. When Betty tightened his stays he barely
kept from grunting. Soon the beautiful red silk gown was on and his
lovely hair was done atop his new head in a very aristocratic style.
Somehow his new, slender fingers knew how to put on the diamond necklace
and the heavy earrings. He thought they would pull his ears off at first
but soon forgot them. Again, he was able, with Betty's help to paint his
face. He stared in the mirror and his goddess, his impossible love,
stared out at him.
He couldn't believe that he was the beautiful Lady Ann! It was
impossible! But it was also true! He felt light headed as he absently
thanked Betty and headed downstairs. His high heels almost sent him down
them head first. The Earl stared upward from the hallway.
"Have you been drinking, Ann?" he asked
"No - father." 'she' stammered. "I ain't 'ad nowt. I mean. I... haven't
had... none." Burt spoke as carefully as he could, not realizing that he
was making just as many mistakes.
The earl grunted doubtfully, frowning. Carefully Burt descended the rest
of the way and trembled as the Earl took 'his daughter's' slender arm
and led him into dinner.
During the meal. the Earl and his quests stared with astonishment at
Lady Ann. The guests were amused at her impersonation of a Yorkshire
yokel, but the earl was not. In the past he had reproved her many times
for imitating the dreadful local accent. Now the Earl guessed Ann was
doing it to punish him for sending her to her grandmother's. She ate
with the wrong fork and she talked with her mouth full.
"How's about some ale instead of this cacky wine?" Lady Ann asked. "I've
wet me whistle with better slop down't Dog & Pony."
"Daughter, enough!" exclaimed the earl. "Stop that ridiculous imitation
of the clod hoppers this instant!"
Fearfully Burt grew quiet. That's right, he thought, I got - need to act
like Lady Ann. What would she think if I disgraced her? Burt felt tears
in her blue eyes.
"I'm terribly sorry father," he said. "You must think me an absolute
heel. It was awfully gauche of me."
The earl grumped and went back to his eating. Burt sat stunned. He
didn't know where that had come from. He'd done his best to imitate the
way he'd heard Lady Ann speak and and done a much better job of it than
he'd expected. He said no more, terrified to open his mouth. 'Lady
Ann's' silence during the rest of the meal was taken for her typical
sulkiness.
Later in the evening, Burt felt terribly embarrassed after going to the
bathroom three times in Lady Ann's body. He felt like a peeping tom!
He went to bed that night emotionally exhausted, but slept for the first
time on soft satin sheets.
* * *
Four more pints of ale later and Ann was having a whale of a time. She'd
never been more than tipsy before but she was edging towards being
really rat-arsed now. She was having a wonderful time laughing at the
crude jokes of the labourers and pit workers. At first they'd made her
feel very uncomfortable but the longer she spent drinking, the more she
relaxed into the role of being one of them.
Pretending to be one of them that was.
She found herself laughing hysterically at a dirty joke about an ugly
whore who had to pay men to have sex with her. She'd never felt such
release or had as much fun in one evening! If she had stayed at home
she'd have been playing bridge with her mother by now or something
equally tedious.
Jeb, a brawny lad who worked the fields owned by her family, started
railing against what he called "the quality" - her family basically. Ann
sat back and chuckled. "That earl up at the house there - he's nothing
but a great fat bugger! He's lording it up there over us while we haveta
slave away for tuppence! And he's a right surly old gaffer!"
The crowd roared its approval and Ann found herself applauding. It was
great having her father cut up.
"And as for that stuck-up bint of a daughter of his," cried Jeb. "She's
a scrawny bit of posh fluff!"
"Hey!" cried Ann before she could stop herself.
"I've seen better legs on a table!"
"E'ya! Shut yer gob!" shouted Ann, leaping to her feet. "Don't you dare
talk about a lady that way!"
"Oh, sit down Burt!" bellowed Jeb. "We know you're in love with her!
You'd let her cut your throat with a smile on your ugly puss!"
Ann saw red. "Get stuffed yer gormless twit or I'll kick in yer chuffing
gonads!"
She reached back and punched Jeb hard in the face.
The crowd bounced him back at her and she struck him again as hard as
she could in the side of his nose, grinning as she felt the bone there
crack. Jeb delivered an uppercut to her stomach but she hardly felt it
with her strong six pack and in seconds they were rolling round on the
floor in the filth and spilt beer, kicking and punching as hard as they
could while the crowds cheered and placed bets.
As Lady Ann sauntered homeward afterwards he had a real swagger in
his--she had a real swagger in her step and a grin on her face. It had
been hilarious from start to finish - a real blast. It had been so
satisfying to smash her now large fists into the other man's face and
he'd deserved it for what he'd said about Lady--
She paused in the darkened lane and rubbed the centre of her forehead.
What he'd said about Lady Ann. She'd caught herself thinking about
herself almost as a different person. As though she wasn't Lady Ann at
all anymore. Which in many ways she supposed she wasn't.
How odd.
And what else had she thought?
The other man. What a strange thought to occur to her, though it was
technically accurate at the moment as well she supposed. She was a man
right now.
"I am a man." She said it aloud, hearing her beer-slurred very male-
sounding voice come back at her from the trunks of the trees. "I'm Burt
Harper, stable hand and labourer up at the manor house." She smiled to
herself in the darkness; then remembering what had happened to her voice
in the pub, she tried adding a bit more Yorkshire to her accent,
choosing her words carefully. Now she was well and truly bladdered the
turn of phrase came more naturally. "Me name's Burt ennit. I'm the bloke
what looks after all the horses for the toffs up at the 'all. I work me
knackers off shoveling shite up off the floor all chuffing day while
those toffee-nosed toe-rags reap the benefit!"
She found herself breathing hard, relishing the feeling of playing the
part, really pretending, just for a minute that she was really Burt;
really just a common labourer. A man. A big, brawny muscular man. A
lower class working man at the end of a rough night getting pissed with
his mates on his way home to have his way with his slapper of a lass.
Feeling increasingly confident, the man strode on into the night.
When he reached the stable he ran up the outside staircase and bashed
open the door. Mavis was already in there, her dress discarded, her
shoulders and arms bare, her tits almost breaking out of her well-worn
corset.
For a moment Ann turned up her nose at the surroundings. She was used to
sleeping on a comfortable bed with satin sheets. Here in the hay barn
she had only a pallet - a thin straw mattress with a blanket - that had
to be cleared away every morning. She'd be sleeping almost on the floor
amidst the straw and the dirt. Who knew what manner of rodents scurried
round the grain sacks in the night?
But then, here before her was a woman who wasn't beautiful by any means,
but was nothing but sexy, from her bawdy lascivious movements and
expressions to the soft skin of her bare legs. Ann felt the throbbing
between her-- No. He felt the throbbing between his legs. He was a man
right now and this was a woman in front of him; a woman who wanted him
to take her.
"Fighting again, Burt, ya great wazok! Honestly, men are such boys. A
real man would rather be with me!" she kissed him hard on the mouth.
A surprised Ann found herself more of a male than she thought and kissed
the woman back. God was a male erection strange but it made her feel
powerful; in control in a way she never had before. Mavis giggled and
said "At least you have the decency to be glad to see me!" Her voice was
nasal and irritating but Ann didn't care about that now. Even Mavis's
body odour didn't matter that much. Mavis stroked his large member and
Ann lost it, crushing the curvy girl in her strong arms.
She threw the girl down on the pallet and pulled off her shirt and
trousers. Her gigantic cock sprung up and out, dazzling her. She'd never
seen a man's sex organ before. Seeing one of this proportion from her
new perspective was overwhelming, especially coupled with the sensations
it was giving her as she clambered over the prostrate girl.
Ann thrust deep into her eager pussy, gripping her forearms to pin her
down! It was like nothing else on earth.
I'm a man, she thought to herself with each pump. I'm a man! I'm a man!
I'm a man!
God it was great to be so strong and well hung!
"Call me your big man!" she demanded.
"You're my big man! You're my big man!" screeched Mavis, jerking as he
rammed into her over and over again.
Ann closed her eyes, pumping over and over into the sweaty curvaceous
woman and suddenly an image came into her mind that almost knocked her
from the moment. It wasn't Mavis she was imagining herself fucking like
this. It was herself! It both puzzled and amused her before the
sensations - the animal need to dominate this woman overcame her again
and she no longer cared.
In her mind it was Lady Ann underneath her and she was Burt, the stable
hand; the labourer. She was pinning Lady Ann down and giving her the
rogering of her chuffing life.
This is what I'd do to you if I could, Lady Ann Neville, she thought,
letting herself wallow in the fantasy. You gorgeous chuffing stuck up
cow! This is how I'd fuck you if I got the chance by gum!
* * *
The next morning Ann was startled to wake from a deep and satisfied
sleep at the crack of dawn. With no glass in the windows it was freezing
and the dawn light shone right in her eyes through the open hayloft
entrance.
It took her a moment to realise where she was. And who she was. Her head
was fuzzy from the previous night's drinking but it quickly came back to
her the pleasure of drinking and carousing and fighting of all things
with her mate Je-- with Jeb, the farmer's boy. She also remembered the
animal passion and the thrill of bedding the slutty barkeep's daughter.
It came back to her how she'd fantasized making love with Lady Ann -
with herself - but she shook her head ruefully. She'd also gotten a lot
of pleasure from telling herself she was really a man.
It was ridiculous really. She put it down to too many jars of-- pints of
that awful ale and the headiness of suddenly finding herself with the
freedom to do anything she desired.
"Best be up and about, Burt," said the smug woman beside him. "Old Harry
will be wantin' you in the stables cleanin' up right after breakfast."
Damn! thought Ann, I should have written a note giving Burt the
fortnight off! Mavis was annoyingly present and there was no chance
right now. I'll have to do it later.
Mavis got up and made Ann breakfast on the little stove there dressed
only in her corset. To Ann's amazement 'he' ate it all! Three eggs and
three huge slices of ham!
"Have we got any bread... luv?" asked Ann, trying again, fairly
unsuccessfully now, to imitate the Yorkshire brogue.
Mavis laughed "What do you think we are? Quality?"
Ann wasn't sure how she felt about that comment. This "holiday" had been
all about doing what she wanted. She didn't like the idea of being
restrained in a different way than she had been in her real life. Also
it made her feel a little insecure that she was no longer 'quality.'
Before she left to use the outside toilet, Mavis walked lasciviously
over to Ann and edged down his trousers. She took the end of his already
throbbing cock in her lips and gave it a quick suck then pulled away.
"That's so as you remember whose man you are," she said, slipping away.
Ann watched her go, smiling as she swelled with pride. I'm her man, she
thought, then stopped herself. What an idiotic thing to think! Mavis was
gutter trash. Useful for a good rutting and not much else. But he did
have to admit he'd enjoyed himself with the lass.
Once he was fully alone, Ann hunted round until she found paper and ink.
It was cheap - nothing like the water stained and scented stationery she
was used to - but it would have to do.
She sat down to write the note.
Dere Hary.
No. That wasn't right.
Deer Arrie,
Yoo av to
plees givv burt--
No.
I ordur yoo to
Yooe wil lett Burt av the fourthknite tou 2 weecks of off work an
so that ee
She gaped at the paper in amazement and displeasure. No matter how hard
she tried, it wasn't her own script that went down on the paper, but
rough and untutored words in Burt's own handwriting, such as it was.
For the life of her she couldn't recall whether Harry was spelt with or
without an "H." She tried saying it out loud.
"Arry." She paused and said it again, sounding it out as carefully as
she could. "Arry."
It sounded like it should start with an "A," but would it then be
spelled A-R-R-Y or A-R-Y-E? It completely escaped her and she couldn't
risk writing the wrong thing because Harry would know that the "real"
Lady Ann wouldn't make such a mistake.
"However could this have 'appened to me," she murmered.
She'd noticed she'd taken on a few masculine mannerisms in her time in
Burt's body - her way of walking for example, and how from time to time
she found it easier to imitate the common way the clodhoppers had of
speaking. She'd assumed that had been part of being a man. It hadn't
occurred to her that she was specifically taking on some of Burt's ways.
She supposed it made sense. Her body had transformed completely into
his. Part of that body was the brain. It followed then that her soul was
now inhabiting Burt's brain. That was why she'd been able to tap into
the part of his brain that determined his language and mode of speech.
And how she'd known how to fight and have sex as a man.
She wondered if she'd know how to groom horses, and whether Burt in her
body would know how to apply makeup.
She looked at the rough bumpkin handwriting on the paper in front of
her. The part of her brain that had been educated to write beautiful
English had obviously transformed along with the rest of her body. She
didn't just have Burt's body; she had his mind as well.
The horror of that struck her for a moment. She really had become Burt
in every physical way. She was still herself - her core personality was
only slightly influenced - but she wondered about the longer term
effects if she remained Burt over days and weeks.
She wondered if she shouldn't just run and get the medallion now and--
"Burt!"
She jerked up.
"Burt!" yelled Harry from the stable yard. "Get down 'ere and muck out
these horses ye great dozy twonk!"
Ann got to his feet and frowned. He could run he supposed but what
choice did he have? As far as the world saw him, he was Burt Harper;
nothing but a common stable hand. The earl had every right to flog him
if he shirked 'his' duties. He had to do what he was told until he could
get a note off the new "Lady Ann." Surely during the swap, she might
have gained the ability to write that he had lost.
"I'm coming," mumbled Ann sourly, not caring for now about how
inaccurate and posh his accent sounded. He went outside and followed
Harry's bellowed instructions, picking up a spade to shovel the
horseshit out of the stalls.
As he shoveled he grumbled to himself that visiting grandmother might
not have been so bad compared to this.
* * *
Burt woke up to breakfast in bed delivered by his amusingly servile maid
Betty. That was wonderful.
It only took a moment to come back to her the incredible transformation
that had occurred to her the afternoon before. Looking down at her
slender arms and long graceful legs was heart stopping. Burt had longed
for so many years to be close to Lady Ann and now he was, in the most
shocking way imaginable.
She dressed for her journey with Betty's assistance. It confounded Burt
why Lady Ann would be so desperate to escape a trip to her grandmother's
that she would swap her own life of luxury for his life of poverty and
hard work, but he'd never really understood the quality. With a little
help from Betty, Burt applied makeup to her now lovely face. She guessed
she had a knack for it because it didn't seem too hard to do.
When she was all ready she stared at herself in the floor length mirror.
As a mere stable hand she'd never even been allowed to set foot in the
manor house before. She'd never conceived of such luxury as having a
mirror as tall as the wall! And she looked beautiful in it!
When Betty left the room, Burt told her to shut the door. "Don't come
back in for a wee bit luv will ye."
Betty looked at her oddly and closed the door behind her.
Burt looked at the eyes of the woman in front of her and said, "Mornin'.
Me name's--" He stopped then very slowly and carefully said, "Good
morning. My name is Lady Ann Neville. I's the daughta of-- I am the
daughter of the earl who owns all the land hereabouts."
She smiled at herself and began again excitedly. "I'm a right posh lass
who--" She gritted her teeth and concentrated. "I am a... cultured and...
well-brought up young lady who..." Burt grinned to herself, enjoying the
fantasy for a moment. "Who stands to inherit all of this come time-- upon
my father's demise."
Burt started to gather up what things he could carry then stopped and
opened the door instead.
"Betty!"
The maid came running. Burt hid a slight giggle at the misfortune of
this girl who had always been snooty to him. "Yes m'lady?"
"Carry these bags downstairs! Immediately!"
The maid started to move to fetch them.
"Move girl! I haven't got all day!"
Betty hurried to pick up the bags and carry them. Burt watched her go
with a sneer on her face, then caught herself. That was really strange.
As a man, Burt had always been what some might call servile, - what he'd
always thought of as helpful. It wasn't in his character to be so
spiteful to someone just because he had power over them.
It didn't occur to him, as it had to Ann, that his brain had transformed
as much as his body had. The part of Burt's brain that made him placid
and helpful and been changed to the part of Lady Ann Neville's brain
that was more than a little spiteful and conniving.
* * *
As she walked out of the manor house to her coach, Burt was startled to
see himself; 'Burt;' rush up to him. It was fascinating and odd seeing
this big man approach 'her' with such discomfort. Lady Ann obviously
didn't enjoy being exposed in front of the coachman, butler, maid and
other staff assembled like this. When last she'd seen them she'd been
lady of the manor. It must surely have rankled to have to play the part
of lowly stable hand in front of them.
For a moment Burt enjoyed the turnabout before he reminded himself that
it was his love for Ann that was spurring him on in this odd charade -
that she would surely accept his adoration of her when they switched
back.
"M'lady," said Ann grudgingly. "Might I 'ave a word." Burt noticed that
like him, his speech pattern still gave her away as an imposter, despite
her clear attempts to overcome it. As a matter of fact, her accent
wasn't too bad.
"Aye," replied Burt. "Er, yes."
They huddled for a moment away from the staff and Ann whispered sharply,
"Go back in the house and write a note giving me a fortnight off!"
Burt was startled and whispered back. "But I 'ardly know my letters!"
"Just do it ya daft bint!" Ann hissed.
Obedient Burt pulled away, slightly hurt, and perplexed by Lady Ann
continuing to ape the local dialect even in private. She went to Betty
and said, "You girl. Fetch me pen and paper immediately!"
Several paces away, Ann watched the exchange, chilled by how well Burt
emulated her turn of phrase with the servants. Burt had guessed
accurately how uncomfortable she felt standing now in front of her
staff, flat cap clutched at her waist, head lowered. It seemed the
proper thing to do and so she was doing it but it annoyed her. Why
should she have to pretend to be an idiot stable hand? She was the lady
of the manor!
Just not at the moment...
Which was why she had to play along; pretend to be who she looked like.
Pretend to be this burly illiterate gloit.
She was still superior to all of them... in her heart, even if not in
reality at this moment. She wondered then about her theory of the change
in her brain. Objectively speaking, was she really their inferior now in
the terms she had always believed? Was that a physical fact as long as
the swap took place?
It didn't leave her feeling good.
Burt went inside and took a seat at an elegant corner table in the
yawning hallway, taking up the pen and paper that Betty presented to
her. She felt very nervous. Despite what Ann had said, there was no way
she'd be able to write anything legible. As a little boy Burt had
learned precious little. He hadn't been brainy enough to master anything
complicated and both he and his teacher had known he would never have
any use for writing.
Betty standing there like a simpering fool didn't help either. "Oh be
off with you girl!" snapped Burt and she scurried away.
He concentrated as hard as he could, throwing his mind back to his
classes, and tried his best to write.
My dear Mister Bramshaw,
If you would be so kind I would be most appreciative if you could give
Burt a fortnight off from his daily grind and tribulations.
She looked down at what she'd written in wonder. Ann had been right. She
could really somehow write as though she'd had years of schooling! And
her handwriting was the elegant letters of a cultured woman.
She went on.
He has done excellent work for the past months and (she smiled
mischievously) though he has no culture or breeding (she giggled to
herself) and limited intelligence, he has done his best to be a
gentleman and deserves a well-earned holiday.
Thank you kindly,
Lady Ann Neville
Burt stared at the letter in front of her and astonishment, especially
at the signature. That was Lady Ann's personal signature; impossible to
copy, especially for a country bumpkin; yet she had written it perfectly
without a second thought. In fact, she'd been so wrapped up in what
she'd been writing, she'd signed the name without even thinking it.
Which was strange.
She shrugged to herself and carried it outside.
Minutes earlier, Ann had watched Betty, her maid, emerge from the
manor's interior, scowling as though she'd just been chastised. This
made Ann smile, imagining Burt playing her part well. Careful to
simulate the Yorkshire accent, Ann said, "Ey-up Betty luv. You look like
a bulldog that's chewing a wasp." She didn't know where she'd picked up
that simile from but it was certainly apt.
"I dunno what you're smirking at Burt Harper ye stupid oaf!" snapped
Betty. "She may lord it over me but you're the lowest of the low round
here! You're everyone's whipping boy! You're not even fit to go inside
the house! You're worth less to the family than those horses I can tell
you've been mucking out by the stench on ye!"
The other servants laughed and Ann's face coloured in fury and
embarrassment. She may have spent years bossing and bullying Betty as
the lady of the house but as long as she was Burt, the maid really was
her superior. She looked round at the chuckling faces of the coachman,
butler and housekeeper and realised that she was subservient to all of
them at the moment.
It was a queer feeling made up of two parts. Part of her knew that if
she snapped back at them they might well flog her where she stood for
being impertinent, or send her packing, thus ruining what was meant to
be a relaxing break from her normal life.
Another part of her just knew that it was wrong to talk back to them. It
wasn't a conscious series of thoughts making up a decision. It was just
instinct. They were his superiors. It wouldn't be right to talk out of
turn.
These odd conflicting feelings made Ann feel even less comfortable and
far more embarrassed. Why couldn't that chuffing toffee-nosed cow hurry
up and get out there with his letter!
At that moment "Lady Ann" emerged from the house and handed the new Burt
his letter. He looked forlornly at the handwriting and perfect turn of
phrase on the note and at the perfect signature.
She frowned at the little insults to her current station in the note,
muttering to herself at the smirk she saw on her former pretty lips.
Very funny. But the joke was on Burt of course. It was him that would
have to live out the rest of his life in this pathetic existence once
the two weeks was up.
"Wait a minute," whispered Ann, quietly scolding the former stable hand.
"You'll have to do this again. You've used a made-up word you idiot!"
Burt looked at the note between Ann's dirty big fingers at where he was
pointing. "Here. That isn't a real word."
"Tribulations is a real word I can assure you Burt," said the apparent
Lady Ann, just loud enough so that the other servants could hear. "It
means a test of one's endurance."
There were more chuckles all round and Ann shoved the note in his pocket
testily, his face flushing beetroot red and his ears growing hot.
"Now ey up and-- be a dear and help me into my coach would you."
Feeling about ready to punch somebody, Ann helped the elegant lady into
her coach. It was an odd moment that left Ann feeling confused. For the
time it took 'Lady Ann' to climb into the coach with 'Burt' helping,
'he' really was the servant and she the mistress. She had demanded
assistance and without thinking, he had stepped up to give it, using his
man's strength so that the beautiful aristocratic lady didn't have to
strain herself.
Feeling increasingly perturbed by the whole scene, Ann stepped back, cap
in hand, to watch it pull away, growing almost angry at the fact that
he'd removed his cap in the first place and still felt reluctant to put
it on while the coach was in sight for fear it might be disrespectful.
Which made no sense at all!
He got slapped hard round the back of the head a moment later by the
butler. "You know better than that you big ugly wassock! You've no right
to talk directly to the lady. You're no better than the dirt beneath her
slippers! Keep to your own class. Is that clear?"
Ann felt cowed beneath the pompous older man, even though he knew he
could easily best him in a fight.
"Are you deaf boy? I said is that clear?"
"Yes," snapped Ann.
"Yes what?"
"Yes... sir."
"Good. Now get out of my sight and take that stink with you!"
Ann backed away as the servants dispersed; all of them laughing at him.
He was furious but reminded himself that none of it mattered now. Now he
had his note, for the next two weeks, he wasn't Burt the stable hand, he
was Burt the free man! With enough cash in his pockets to get bladdered
every single night!
He took it back to the stable and showed it triumphantly to Harry. The
old man grumbled but he had no choice. "The whims of the quality passes
all understanding!" he misquoted.
Ann grinned with Burt's lips.
"But she got this part right about you being an idiot."
The grin dropped from her mouth and she stormed away.
She climbed up the stairs to the hayloft and found Mavis lying on the
hard floor pallet, her legs spread, pleasuring herself. She started when
Ann entered but didn't cover herself up. She didn't even stop fingering
her fanny but she slowed down and gave him a saucy smile. "Ey up Burt.
Wot you doin' back so soon?"
"Ow do," replied Ann, pleasantly surprised at how she managed to imitate
the local dialect without even thinking about it. "Watching you do that
is-- is class, that is." Ann floundered for a minute, on the verge of
referring to how it made her penis feel, feeling suddenly awkward. Then
she decided to say it anyway. What did decorum matter now? "It makes me
cock want to explode does that."
There was no point in fighting the fact that for now she really was a
common man inside and out, even if it felt like a dangerous surrender
allowing herself to think that. A superstitious part of her was afraid
that she might forget who she really was and be stuck this way if she
REALLY admitted to herself that's who she was for now. But she looked
down at this half-clad strumpet and the overwhelming sense of manhood
she felt made a mockery of restraint.
I really am Burt, she said to herself in the bubbling quiet of her mind.
I'm really a horny commoner; a man who wants nothing but sex. For now,
she reminded herself. She couldn't not add that, even if part of her
really wanted to surrender, for the moment at least, to the full
experience. She really felt that if she didn't fully take on the part
with all her heart then she'd never enjoy the whole masculine
experience.
Before she could stop herself she rashly said the words in her head,
further cementing her identity in her imagination.
I'm not a sissy woman, he told himself. I'm not that stuck-up Lady Ann.
She's quality. She's better than the likes of me. I'm nothing but a man
- a.. a stupid illiterate labourer about to shag his woman.
"By eck as like I must say," said the new Burt, the Yorkshire accent
flowing completely naturally now, "I want me some o' that fanny! Ere,
get on ye knees and suck my cock like ye promised."
Mavis's eyes lit up as "Burt" flopped out his big engorged member. She
put her mouth round it, on her knees in front of him and he made fists
with his big dirty hands as the pleasure shot through him. Before he
came, he ordered her to get on her hands and knees on the pallet and
rammed into her juicy minge from behind.
"Oooh aye," groaned Burt. "That's reet champion that is. Reet chuffin
great luv, Reet chuffin great."
He reached forward and played with her pendulous breasts as the lazy
morning stretched on. At first he'd thought the talented girl smelled
awful but soon didn't notice at all.
This was the life. It really was.
* * *
The real Burt meanwhile, stared out with her new eyes at the
disappearing English countryside, an elegant shawl wrapped around her
shapely legs. In no time they were at the railway station and she was
helped down and escorted to a first class carriage. Betty made
sure she was comfortable and then discreetly withdrew to third class.
As the journey began she was served tea in a china cup and cucumber
sandwiches. Burt felt like she was dreaming.
From the station in London, she was whisked in another carriage to an
elegant townhouse, "her" grandmother's house, where she was shown up to
her beautiful bedroom and left to dress for high tea.
Burt was in a total whirl. What had began only as half favour and half
command from his precious Lady Ann had become a fantastic trip through
opulence and wealth. She thought back to leaving the manor house, being
helped onto the coach by the new Burt with all the servants in
attendance. She'd never felt so important and esteemed, and despite her
adoration for Lady Ann, she had found it funny that 'he' had had to help
her. She actually giggled to recall 'Burt' telling her off for making up
the word "tribulations" and ending up looking like a complete dunce in
front of the people 'she' used to command. She felt guilty laughing at
her beloved Ann's expense and stopped herself, then let herself giggle
away. It was Ann's choice that she'd taken on the roll of a servant. If
she acted like an idiot she deserved to feel the fool.
Burt was oblivious to the subtle but important shift that had just
occurred in his and the Lady Ann's relationship but it was there. Up
until then, Burt had adored her from afar as an almost mythical being, a
dazzling beauty to worship and fawn over. Suddenly he saw Ann as just a
person, still someone he was devoted to but just another human being. An
equal. Or, for now, even an inferior. It was entirely subconscious.
And it wasn't hard to do. Burt had spent his life resenting the way he
was looked down on by his betters, while at the same time knowing they
were his superiors. Now that he was in the role of the lady of the manor
it was just such a natural perception to have that "she" was better than
the "lower orders." That was simply how everybody acted. It made it
true. Ann had helped her submissively into the coach. For now 'he' was a
servant.
"By ecky thump," said Burt, "this is a right rum do."
He frowned crossly, touching his slender neck in the mirror with long
delicate fingers and a soft hand. He was enjoying all this luxury but
felt he was letting Ann down terribly by talking like a yokel half the
time. True, he'd been able to imitate the posh way the swells had of
talking some of the time but he still lapsed into his typical Yorkshire
brogue more often than not. He had to try harder. He tried saying it
again, maintaining as feminine a pose as possible at the same time.
"Goodness gracious me. This is an awfully perplexing situation."
The beautiful woman smiled back at him. That was much better.
Ten minutes later, over high tea, Ann's grandmother proved just how poor
Burt's attempts were to fit in. "Honestly Ann - don't slurp your tea!
You have been too long in the country and around your father."
"Soz grand nanna. You ain't wrong."
"And your accent!" snapped the old woman. "I see I am going to have to
re-school you!"
And the forcible old woman started immediately!
Burt was told how to sit, how to eat properly, how to walk and what
subjects were appropriate for dinner conversation. His new grandmother
winced after each Yorkshire word
and not so gently corrected 'her grand daughter!' It made Burt feel like
a fool but part of him enjoyed someone taking such an interest in
improving him and making him into a better person. More and more he
started to enjoy the exercise of being the best woman he could be. After
admiring the quality for so long it was fantastic to become one him, or
as it was, herself!
Burt felt so strange but she soon found herself falling into quality
ways without even having to think too hard about it. It was almost as if
she was relearning the skills rather than picking them up for the first
time. Her brain and body remembered how to act like a lady. Any delay in
it was simply her bumpkin memories cluttering things up and getting in
the way. She learned to suppress them and found that it really helped to
try and think of herself as Ann.
Every couple of hours she would take a moment by herself in front of a
looking glass to look herself in the eyes and say, "I am Lady Ann
Neville. I'm a beautiful well-bred woman and I always have been. I am
the eldest daughter of the Earl Neville and have lived in the manor
since I was a little girl."
This made it easier to slip into her temporary role but she kept
contradicting herself in her mind; part of herself reminding her that
she was really Burt. Knowing she had to do well for fear of letting her
darling Ann down, she tried a different tack to cement that side of
things.
"I'm not Burt and I never have been. He's just a big oafish labourer who
doesn't deserve to even look at me. He's a pathetic commoner who's
plainly besotted with me. Like that would ever happen. I'd sooner marry
a monkey than get close enough to that smelly man to let him kiss me."
She felt guilty saying these things but they really helped her to blot
out the lingering clumsiness of action and voice that had come from her
old life.
On the second day, Burt was taken to meet some very dull old ladies, but
watched and learned. He was taken to a concert. He had never been to one
in his life. It was so strange to be treated so well by everyone he met,
and he enjoyed lording it over Betty. The maid slavishly obeyed her and
the new Lady Ann smiled impishly as she gave the common girl pointless
and trivial tasks to do and errands to run. Proving her superiority in
this way over the lower orders not only gave her great pleasure but
helped immensely in slipping further into the roll she had promised Lady
Ann she would play.
On the third night, bored, Burt idly picked up a Jane Austin novel;
Pride and Prejudice; and found much to her surprise that should could
read very well. She shouldn't have been so shocked after the incident
with the note but it was still a marvel. She'd never so much as read the
first paragraph of a novel before!
It was a wonderful book and Burt stayed up late reading it. It taught
her even more about how ladies and gentlemen ought to behave and she
assimilated it carefully, increasingly identifying with Elizabeth
Bennet, the heroine.
At breakfast the following morning, Burt ate sparingly, as she wasn't
very hungry but it was so wonderful to be waited on! It made her feel in
truth like she was Lady Ann.
At midmorning she found her grandmother laughing.
"Whatever is it, Grandmother?" asked Burt.
"A most diverting book child. You must read it. Leave it to the yanks to
be to be so silly and bold."
She passed over a book called Perkins the Fakir but when she flicked
back the cover the first story title leaped out at Burt. When Reginald
Was Caroline!
"It's about a married couple," said grandmother. "The wife switches
bodies with her boorish husband to teach him a lesson! It is most
diverting."
Burt shot the old woman a glance. Did she suspect? No. Impossible. She
still thought Burt was Ann. Fascinated Burt began to read and giggled at
the mistakes the man made. This would help her even more to masquerade
as a lady!
That night they dined with some more old women and Burt found it dull,
but the food was elegant and wonderful. Also, Burt found more and more
pleasure in her appearance and the lovely gowns she wore. Everyone said
she was beautiful and she flushed with gratification.
Being a lady was so enjoyable and she was doing it so well!
* * *
Back at the manor, Ann was enjoying himself immensely! The first week
was just a long series of drinking binges and marathon sex sessions.
He'd just finished yet another long morning shag with Mavis on top of
him, her massive breasts swinging in his face as he chewed on them hard
to her piggish squeals of delight as he thrust his pelvis up against her
crotch. She was a right bit of rough and he knew she was likely sharing
it around for extra cash but he didn't give a chuff. As long as the slag
was ready to spread her legs wide whenever he wanted, what did it matter
if she made extra pennies on the side with the other blokes?
And he knew she thought he was the best man in the village. He often
caught Mavis and the other girls tittering away about how virile he was
and big his cock was. It made his pride swell to stride round the
village getting admiring looks from all the slutty girls. He'd already
had his dirty way with more than a couple of them as well anyway.
"I'd best be off else me father and brothers'll want to know what for,"
whined Mavis in her irritating nasal voice. "I afta work in't bar again
this afternoon. You comin' down later?"
"Right you are," replied Ann, lying back with his hands behind his head,
his cock still sticking up onto his stomach. "I'll be getting a few
bevies in tonight, that's for certain. I aim to get absolutely rat-arsed
tonight, me. Then maybes I'll give Jeb another trouncing. That fat
bugger's been givin' you the eye right enough more than once. He's gotta
learn to keep 'is eyes off of uvver men's property!"
"Aaah Burt," whinged Mavis, "You're always fighting, yer great big
cretin. Why do you afta act life such a simpleton all the time? We both
knows you ain't clever but you've been nothing but a nitwit lately; a
right dunce. Everyone says so."
Ann fell silent, stewing angrily.
"You better shape yourself up and stop acting like a simpleton. I don't
want people saying I'm stepping out with a nincompoop. If you don't stop
acting like a blockhead all the time then I might have to get me
pleasurin' someplace else" She strode out haughtily, still only half
dressed, the rest of her clothes under her arm.
Ann got up off the hard pallet but didn't bother to put any clothes on.
He packed away the pallet to avoid a balling out from old Harry. As
Burt, he had another week off yet but that didn't stop the old man
treating him like dirt when he got the chance.
But was Mavis right, pondered Ann. Was he stupid now?
There was a pamphlet Harry had left lying around on a shelf all about
the Socialist Party. Ann picked it up in her dirty big hand and tried to
read it but it was all beyond her. She couldn't deny that the part of
her brain that contained her former education had changed into Burt's
less complicat