Chapter Four
Madam had not been wrong, the boxes were exactly as she had indicated they would be, and some of them were as large as I had suspected. It took me nearly an hour to collect them and to carry them down through the pantry, then negotiate the narrow stairs whilst trying not to drop them. The largest oblong one, I ended up sliding carefully down those stairs until it finally arrived in its new home.
I had made a mistake I realised after they had all been moved, my error was in the order I had moved them. I should have taken the largest most awkward first, not last. By the time they were all delivered down there, scattered across the floor, with the largest propped against a convenient pillar, I was felt knackered.
I decided that I would take the risk of displeasing Madam by g
