Consequences
“She picked it up, glanced through the pages, arrived at Situations Vacant, and learned that this library, which was in fact called the Literary and Philosophical Institute and hailed from the early nineteenth century, was in need of a library assistant. Why not? she thought. I like books. I am not a trained librarian but I have a shiny new degree, barely used. I can learn. I am rather more than literate, and said to be personable. Better this than dogsbody in an office, or tea maker at the BBC....She got off the tube at South Kensington, and went home to tell Lucas that she was going to work at the Lit. and Phil.“How do you know they’ll give you the job?”“Because I shall wear my very nicest smile, and appear to be both efficient and astonishingly well read.”“I’m sure they’ll be bowled over,” said Lucas. “Mind, books are filthy things. Don’t imagine it’ll be nice clean work. Especially if they’re a hundred years old.”Waiting for the interview, she eyed the competition: two girls in twinsets, tweed skirts, lisle stockings, and brogues, and a youth with acne.MoreLess
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