Chapter Six
Catfight
In the days that followed, testy moments between Ella and Meri seemed more common than civil ones. Meri took every opportunity to criticize the girl’s work. She inspected everything with an eagle eye, sure to find something amiss.
“When Alain trained me, I got it right,” Meri snipped when she spotted a puddle of water on the floor after Ella had done the dinner dishes.
“I’m not done yet,” Ella snapped back.
Another day – “How about doing the counters over. You missed a bunch of grease by the stove.” Ella didn’t say a thing, but she grudgingly did what she was told.
Their snippy comments were out of Mrs. Langshire’s hearing distance, thankfully, or they would have both been marched in front of Alain the next time he was home. The housekeeper wouldn’t have put up w
