The View From Castle Rock (2006) - Plot & Excerpts
Montjoy was showing me how to put the pots and pans away. I had put some of them in the wrong places. Above all things, she said, she hated a higgledy-piggledy cupboard. “You waste more time,” she said. “You waste more time looking for something because it wasn’t where it was last time.” “That’s the way it was with our hired girls at home,” I said. “The first few days they were there they were always putting things away where we couldn’t find them. “We called our maids hired girls,” I added. “That was what we called them, at home.” “Did you?” she said. A moment of silence passed. “And the colander on that hook there.” Why did I have to say what I had said? Why was it necessary to mention that we had hired girls at home? Anybody could see why. To put myself somewhere near her level. As if that was possible. As if anything I had to say about myself or the house I came from could interest or impress her. It was true, though, about the hired girls.
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