[society] high class maids

Would you take a low-paid job and turn yourself into a second-class citizen just to make a few dollars and see the world?

Swedish au pairs and French maids are legendary for it but it's more difficult to see why two German girls from good families would come over to London, specifically to find such work.

Hannah and Elsa were two ladies at a loose end some summers ago, having negotiated work at a pizza place on Shad Thames and with the weekend to put in before they began their first shift on the Monday morning. I met them in Blackheath, trying to negotiate accommodation for the night. What else was a man to do on a Sunday afternoon other than take them through Greenwich Park and give them a boat trip to the city?

How would two proud Germans react to the drudgery of the work and how would they be treated by the management?

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