CHAPTER TWO
One day my mother became sick. According to her I was too young to look after the household and she thought it better to engage a woman lor .the purposes of cleaning up. She refused to call this woman by the name of her employment, a maid.
I was astonished. Knowing my mother, how could she employ someone who would cost her money? It would certainly be expensive for this woman who was so tight .with bills and the like. It was then that I learned that my father had received a promotion. He became the director of his small factory. His salary had by no means been insufficient up to that time. But now we were going to have a maid.
She was a woman of some forty years of age and rather large. Her mouth was somewhat disdainful for a maid, especially with her broken nose and her str
