"What are your requirements?"
"I have no requirements whatever—all I want is a situation."
"Have you got any papers?"
I handed her my reference from Buda-Pesth, and, after having read it carefully, she folded it up and looked at me thoughtfully.
"Would you mind doing housework?"
"Not at all," I replied, full of new hopes.
She reached for one of the large books, and turned the leaves over.
"Would you like to go in the country?"
"With all my heart."
At that she nodded eagerly, and pointing with her finger at a place in the book, she said: