Help Wanted
“Robin stood outside the gates of Manorwood and looked bleakly through the iron bars. The wind had picked up just since she’d left school, and the trees were groaning, bending low over the fence, reaching out to her with scraggly limbs like claws.
Go on in. Don’t be such a coward.
She made herself angry when she acted like this. What did she have to be afraid of, anyway? Old Mr. Swanson had seemed to like her, and she’d already met Claudia. All the preliminaries were out of the way now; all she ...had to do was get down to work.
So go on in. What’s stopping you?
A feeling, Robin decided.
That feeling again of something not quite right … something hanging in the air … like a tragedy about to happen.… “Stop this! You’re being silly,” she mumbled to herself. “I need this job, and I’m taking it.” The sound of her own voice spurred her to action. She pressed the buzzer by the gate and a moment later found herself walking up the long drive to the house.
“Miss Bailey, no one’s home at the moment,”MoreLess
Go on in. Don’t be such a coward.
She made herself angry when she acted like this. What did she have to be afraid of, anyway? Old Mr. Swanson had seemed to like her, and she’d already met Claudia. All the preliminaries were out of the way now; all she ...had to do was get down to work.
So go on in. What’s stopping you?
A feeling, Robin decided.
That feeling again of something not quite right … something hanging in the air … like a tragedy about to happen.… “Stop this! You’re being silly,” she mumbled to herself. “I need this job, and I’m taking it.” The sound of her own voice spurred her to action. She pressed the buzzer by the gate and a moment later found herself walking up the long drive to the house.
“Miss Bailey, no one’s home at the moment,”MoreLess
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