Mulberry1992

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Alice:
So, what you putting?

Bert:
The usual. [reading card] Wanted: young person to render general domestic assistance. Live-in preferred. Good wages and congenial working conditions.

Alice:
Oh. The usual pack of lies, in other words.

Bert:
What am I supposed to put, the truth? Very attractive that would read, wouldn't it? Wanted: masochist to be at beck and call of cantankerous old trout.

Alice:
Well, I doubt we'll get anyone this time anyway. The whole county must know about her by now.

Bert:
Miss Threlfall was a stayer. Today was a day over a fortnight, you know.

Alice:
Well, she had been in the army, hadn't she?