Just then he heard the alarm go off. Leaving things as they were, he headed for the alcove where the laundry was. After pulling the rug out of the washer, he put it in the dryer and turned the dryer on. Once again he set the kitchen clock’s alarm, but for a full hour this time.
When he was back in Mistress Tiffany’s bedroom, he put some furniture polish on his dust cloth and polished the top of the chest. Standing back from it, he saw a smear, then polished until he had polished it away. Then he returned the items that had been on top of the chest to their previous places. He repeated this same routine with the other chest, and dusted and polished the headboard of Mistress Tiffany’s bed as well as the small chest right beside it. Then he went to a hallway closet to fetch a Hoover vacuum c
