The two women couldn't be more different in looks and demeanour. With her hourglass figure, peroxide blonde hair and painted toenails Barbara epitomises what the Irish refer to as a 'brasser' and the French - rather more flatteringly - as a 'lady of the night'. Doreen is altogether more demure, though her plain-Jane outfits conceal a trim figure with long elegant legs, a tiny waist and classically-proportioned breasts.
The Spanish vacation soon turns into a joyous romp of sexual discovery for Doreen. Barbara regularly massages her breasts with sun oil, kissing her tenderly as she lies naked on the sun lounger on the apartment's balcony. These sensual sessions are usually heightened by liberal quantities of Sangria to the sounds of Spanish Flamenco music.
Doreen has torn up her return air ticket and arranged for her private pension to be paid into one of the local Spanish banks. Barbara continues to service some of her pet clients, but devotes most of her attention to the sexual gratification of her friend. For her part, Doreen feels totally liberated as a woman.
One afternoon, the two women are relaxing in the nude together on the balcony. Barbara marvels at the symmetry of Doreen's beautiful breasts - the gentle concave swoop of the topmost parts contrasting with the convex curves beneath, and the perfectly-formed chestnut brown aerola surrounding her pea-sized nipples. She brushes them softly with the palm of one hand, feeling them harden to her touch, then glances down enviously at the way the sun glistens on the dew-like moisture forming on her new mate's slit.
"Have I ever told you I adore your cunt?"
"Several times. And have I told you that you're my beautiful whore?"
"Several times."
They giggle girlishly.
"Frig me with your finger, Babs?"
"I can do better than that. Did Reg ever go down on you?"
"No way! He thought that sort of thing was unhygienic, even dirty. Remember he was a part-time para-medic volunteer at our local hospital."
"Then let's give it a go, shall we? Spread your legs wide for Babs, sweetie. I'm gonna spend the next half-hour eating that divine pussy of yours!"
The squeals of sexual delight were probably audible on the beach below.
That evening Doreen and Barbara are returning arm-in-arm to their apartment after supper in a local bar. They pause in front of the window of a sex shop.
"Let's take a look around shall we?" suggests Barbara, always eager to introduce her lover to new delights. The once-staid Doreen needs no encouragement.
Once inside the shop they are soon absorbed by the contents of a large glass cabinet, in which various sex toys, vibrators and dildos are displayed.
"What's that?"
"A strap-on."
"A what?"
"A dildo, sweetie. It's for ladies to fuck other ladies. Supposed to have been invented by the ancient Egyptians."
Squeezing her partner's hand tightly, Barbara gestures at a huge dildo labelled 'The Gargantuan'.
"Now that's what I call 'well hung'! I'm going all weak at the knees just thinking about it."
But Doreen's attention has been attracted by a more modest-sized phallus on a lower shelf. Bell-ended and dark brown, with realistic veins running up its shaft, its box announces: 'The Massai Warrior'.
Doreen whispers, "What d'you think Babs?"
"That's more like it babe.