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You're what? Mrs Broadbeam said gazing at Mary the kitchen maid who stood facing her hands behind her back red knuckles clutching each other Miss Alice's lady's maid Mary said softly eyeing the cook fearing her censure lady's maid? you? who said? Mrs Broadbeam uttered spitting as she did so His Lordship Mary said just now when I went to see him Mrs Broadbeam breathed deeply and stared at the thin girl before her but you know nothing about Miss Alice and she hardly knows you the cook said Mary said nothing about Miss Alice climbing into her bed one night and insisting Mary be her adopted mother as her own mother was ill away in hospital called an asylum I know her Mary said I took her for walks and we saw the horses in the stables when the nanny asked me to look after her the other month asked you? the cook said that's her job not yours Mary looked past the cook at the stove where a *** was boiling and how am I to manage without you? Mrs Broadbeam said the nanny said she will get another girl to help you Mary said looking back at the cook Mrs Broadbeam sighed a big sigh and when is this meant to start? the cook said Sunday for church and after Mary said blinking and biting her lip there was silence and stares and big heaving of breath quietly all right well until then don't stand there there is work to be done potatoes to peel washing up to wash and dry Mary nodded her head and putting her apron about her waist walked off to the scullery to begin more work the voice of the cook bellowing from afar from the kitchen pots and pans banging then silence then the cook's voice singing.
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Jan 11, 2016
Jan 11, 2016 at 2:50 PM UTC
TerryCollett
STEP UP 1901.
You're what? Mrs Broadbeam said gazing at Mary the kitchen maid who stood facing her hands behind her back red knuckles clutching each other Miss Alice's lady's maid Mary said softly eyeing the cook fearing her censure lady's maid? you? who said? Mrs Broadbeam uttered spitting as she did so His Lordship Mary said just now when I went to see him Mrs Broadbeam breathed deeply and stared at the thin girl before her but you know nothing about Miss Alice and she hardly knows you the cook said Mary said nothing about Miss Alice climbing into her bed one night and insisting Mary be her adopted mother as her own mother was ill away in hospital called an asylum I know her Mary said I took her for walks and we saw the horses in the stables when the nanny asked me to look after her the other month asked you? the cook said that's her job not yours Mary looked past the cook at the stove where a *** was boiling and how am I to manage without you? Mrs Broadbeam said the nanny said she will get another girl to help you Mary said looking back at the cook Mrs Broadbeam sighed a big sigh and when is this meant to start? the cook said Sunday for church and after Mary said blinking and biting her lip there was silence and stares and big heaving of breath quietly all right well until then don't stand there there is work to be done potatoes to peel washing up to wash and dry Mary nodded her head and putting her apron about her waist walked off to the scullery to begin more work the voice of the cook bellowing from afar from the kitchen pots and pans banging then silence then the cook's voice singing.
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