The Decorating Job
I'm engaged by an older woman to decorate her house. She's angry when she discovers I've been snooping but then matters take a turn for the better.
Being a student, and obviously impoverished, I was intrigued to see an advert posted on the noticeboard in the Student Union offering work. The poster, a Mrs Roslyn from the Bursary Department, was seeking a student to work over the summer redecorating her large house on the edge of town. My degree course in the history of art didn't qualify me to decorate a cake, let alone a house, but I was not one to duck a challenge....