“Her age was against her in almost any form of employment that was available. The fact that she had had only one employer and two forms of employment—as governess and lady’s companion—in all her working life for the past twenty-two years was against her, despite her effort to explain that the very longevity of her employment proved that she must be both steady and trustworthy She could not expect to be employed as a housekeeper, one of the few forms of employment for which her age might qualify ...her, since she had no experience in the tasks involved, and she could not expect to be anyone’s chef for the very simple reason that she did not know how to cook anything more complex than a boiled egg.The best she had been able to do was leave her name and letters of introduction and recommendation at the two agencies that were willing to take them, in the faint hope that something would turn up.Alice was well aware that it was a very faint hope.The only really good thing that had happened to her during the afternoon was that she had encountered an old friend while she was sitting on a bench beneath the shade of a tree on the outer edges of a churchyard to rest her aching feet.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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