Chapter 12 Part 2 Working as a Maid in a Bakery

During this time, I left the printing shop and worked as a clerk in a bakery.The treatment includes food and laundry, plus twenty francs a month.I have to get up at five o'clock in the morning to sell warm buns to the workers at work. During the day, I deliver bread to customers, do housework and cook for the proprietress, and help the shop assistants. This guy was so joking, he once stripped himself naked and said to me: "Well, Alice, look! Isn't it handsome? You'll never see such a pretty thing again!" I find it ugly and vulgar! The proprietress is very bad, she is always yelling, and I have only one wish in my heart: the night will come soon, I can go to bed, I am so tired.

I really wanted to escape, but my mother threatened me that she would put me in a reformatory! One evening I looked through the window and saw a young man kissing a girl on a public bench. His hands went up the chick's skirt, and she looked so happy and content!I felt a strange commotion in me, thinking of the baker's clerk, and as a result, I lay down on the bed... and the rest, let the imagination do the work!It's wonderful...but I'm terrified!From then on, every day I need to hide alone two or three times! I have too much work to do, and it's always too late to finish it!I had to be reprimanded every day, and one day, I couldn't hold back anymore, so I slapped the lady boss.

The young chap enjoyed the scene with great amusement, and did nothing to pull us apart. After the fight I ran away without a penny in my pocket.That bitch boss lady, that's how she got the upper hand on me.As for the rest, we're even: she did something dirty to me, and I'm giving her this lesson, and it's even!