MacreadyMaam Sun 27-Sept-20 Add message Report Message Poster
I am the housekeeper for an ageing Professor. I run the house, manage the staff and take pride in everything I do.
For some unknown reason, the Professor has taken in a group of children from London, two boys and two girls. They are disruptive, noisy, one cries at the drop of a hat and they're always sneaking into rooms where they shouldn't be and disappearing. I don't know what one of them is up to, but there was snow on the stair runner last week - I was mortified when guiding some sightseers around and had to take the matter up with Betty and Ivy; although they're no better than they should be, it shouldn't have been there in the first place.
What's more, I am certain that they've sneaked some simply frightful pets into the manor house with them, as I keep finding bits of coarse fur, like a horse, deer or even (shudder) a RAT, on their coats.
The Professor is a bit distracted most of the time and seems to revel in flights of fancy, so doesn't seem to understand how trying this is for a woman of my station.
AIBU to insist that this awful creatures are sent to a farmhouse somewhere where they can burn off their excessive energy, make all the noise they wish and have a woman who can mother them in the absence of their own, who seems to have been a bit of a flighty one, as she's sent them out rather than to family somewhere?