Chapter 14 Part 2 second time maid

So, the next day, I was introduced to the new lady boss.She was a pretty brunette, slightly plump, and kind-looking. However, I have to clean this big house by myself. Besides that, I had to cook, wash, and iron from seven o'clock in the morning until nine o'clock in the evening.I don't belong to me anymore!In return I earn thirty-five francs a month. After all, it was much better here than the baker's wife's, but it was harder than being a model--earning five francs for three hours.I stayed in this artist's house for half a month, and generally speaking, this person is not bad.

My bedroom is in the basement, next to the heating.The bedroom was painted white from top to bottom, and the floor was covered with animal skins, also white.The room was beautiful, immaculate and, to my eyes, truly luxurious.I can get some daylight through the transom, which looks on the Fuguilar road. I watch the legs go up and down the window and I love to imagine and make up stories about those lovely legs! One night, about ten o'clock, I was going to bed when I was called: "Alice Poulein!" It was a woman's voice, very thick retroflex. "Let me see, it should be a fellow!" I said to myself.

Indeed, an old friend, she was cheerful, ready to laugh, small, with a good figure.We chatted for a while through the transom, and then she and I made an appointment to meet the next day. I only have one day off each month. Therefore, when I asked the lady boss for leave to go out, I presumed that it was to take a shower. Her answer left me speechless, she said, I can take a bath in her bathtub. I thought of everything except that she would let me use her bathroom! I refused to say that I would feel uncomfortable.She still didn't grant me leave. So, I had to sneak out the door without even changing my clothes.

My girlfriend and I had a great afternoon.When she sent me back at night, the whole house was dark and there was no sound. Without thinking too much, I went back to my girlfriend's house for the night.So I could no longer go back—to use respectful words—to the house of my hostess.