Book description
1st May 1926 - Dear Alec, Just when those who should be working are all
downing tools for this wretched strike (and I still can't believe it - I
mean to say: riots, Alec - in Edinburgh of all places) guess who is
setting her virgin shoulder to its very first wheel? I am dressed in
serge and sensible footwear, sleeping in an iron bed and dining off
pickled tongue at six o'clock each day. I am, in short, that nice young
Mrs Balfour's new maid. But don't worry, Alec dear: things haven't got
as bad as all that. It's just that that nice young Mr Balfour is going
to kill his wife. At least, she thinks so, and the more I hear about him
from butler, cook and bootboy the more I'm inclined to agree. So I'm
undercover, in disguise, bent upon foiling. And jolly hard work it is
too - tomorrow is my half-day free if you'd care take me out for a
restorative bun. (Every maid needs a beau to buy buns for her.) Yours,
Dandy xx p. s. Ask for Miss Rossiter: below stairs I am she.
