Scandalous Risks
“DAVID L. EDWARDS I ‘Let me tell you what I plan to do,’ said the Bishop, resplendent in his old-fashioned uniform, his episcopal ring glinting in the light as he toyed with his pectoral cross.
It was Monday, the first day of my new job, and we were closeted together in the South Canonry’s morning-room which had been turned into an office for me. My hired IBM Electric typewriter gleamed on its table by the window. I myself was arranged nearby in the classic secretarial position, one leg crossed ...over the other and my shorthand notebook resting on my uppermost knee. I wore an austere white blouse and a black skirt and looked (I hoped) vaguely religious, as befitted an office serf in attendance on a prelate. My horrible hair, now growing wildly towards a Pre-Raphaelite length after its tiresome ‘in-between’ stage, was scraped off my face and stuffed into a sort of net which I had speared with another interesting metal object from Boots. I could feel the hair weighing on the nape of my neck like an enormous doughnut as I held my pencil lightly above the blank page.MoreLess
It was Monday, the first day of my new job, and we were closeted together in the South Canonry’s morning-room which had been turned into an office for me. My hired IBM Electric typewriter gleamed on its table by the window. I myself was arranged nearby in the classic secretarial position, one leg crossed ...over the other and my shorthand notebook resting on my uppermost knee. I wore an austere white blouse and a black skirt and looked (I hoped) vaguely religious, as befitted an office serf in attendance on a prelate. My horrible hair, now growing wildly towards a Pre-Raphaelite length after its tiresome ‘in-between’ stage, was scraped off my face and stuffed into a sort of net which I had speared with another interesting metal object from Boots. I could feel the hair weighing on the nape of my neck like an enormous doughnut as I held my pencil lightly above the blank page.MoreLess
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