[{"node":{"title":"Lingard122","Collections":"Chapter 13","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard122","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Domesticated, Blake","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard122","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Lingard122_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff114\n\nthan nothing, wouldn\u2019t it?\"\n\n\"Mr Blake, do you mean you\u2019d like me to work for you?\"\n\nMr Blake xi laughed at Sadie's astonished face. \"Why not?\"\n\n\"3ut I'm not very good at that sort of thing. I got the lowest\nmarks in my class for Domestic.\"\n\n\"Marks don't always mean anything. I wouldn't want all that much\ndone. A bit of clearing up and washing, and maybe you could cook\nmy lunch?\"\n\n\"Are you serious?\"\n\n\"CompletelyAbsolutely.\"\n\n\"All right,\" she said slowly, trying to adjust to an imagethe idea of herself\nasbeing domesticated. \"I'll have a go.\"\n\n\"Good! It'll do me goodcheer me up to see you coming in every morning. The\nother woman shad a long face and was always complaining about her\nback.\"\n\n\"You don't need any cherring up, Mr Blake\" said Sadie, making him laugh again.\n\nThey agreed on rates of payment; and in addition Sadie wouldwas to be\ngiven her lunch and bus fares.\n\nShe insistedsaid that she would like to start work straight away. Her earlier mood was\nforgotten; she was gripped now h by a fever to workfor action. Mr Blake went\nback to his gardening, leaving her to examine the array of vacuum clecleaners, mops and dusters. She decided to scrub the kitchen floor\nfirst, not that it looked as if it really needed it, but because it\nwas the kind of job that made her feel virtuous and hard-working.\nFor Mr Blake she wanted to be hard-working. She sang as she scrubbed\nand found pleasure in sitting back on heels afterwards to look at the\n","Type":"Text"}}]