Our new week did not start well! Joe informed us on the Wednesday that we will be doing breakfast also from now on, as Rosanne was wanting to spend more time with the kids, as they struggle to get ready for school in time. Anna was immediately on her high horse, but not in front of Joe, and was grumbling the whole day about the fact that they were actually abusing us, as we already worked long hours for a very small wage. Anna kept on nagging me to ask Joe for a rise, and I agreed to shut her grumblings up, and as I had another job still to go to if we got fired. Anna reasoned of course, that as I would be doing the asking, I would be fired, and I would be ok, going on to Chipping, while she would play the innocent, and stay on here.
By this time we had a fairly good idea about Joe and his dread of spending unneccesary money, and it was with a very heavy heart that I approached him, and said that as we would be working about twelve hours from now on, We would like to be paid a bit more! He exploded! I told him that in that case, I would be leaving, as I had this other job that I could go to, and I was ready to go, although I loved it in Scotland. The rest of the week was hellish, as Joe, whenever he had to pass me, just gave me a glare, gone was the  'Darling' that he so far used so easily on both of us, and I phoned the butler at Chipping and told him that I might be on my way sooner than what I thought. I then went to Joe and told him that as he is now really ugly with me, I would be leaving after the week-end, so as not to leave them in the lurch, and he had time to get some-one else!
He and Rosanne sat in the bar, and had a very serious discussion, but I was not worried, although I was sad at the thought of leaving.
After our shift of cleaning the rooms, Joe called us to the pub, and smiling broadly, although I saw some pain in his eyes for the extra he had to pay out of course, he informed us that they had decided to give us a pay rise! Oh, we were two happy women, and all was well, Joe even started calling me Darling again!
It was that same night when Chris, one of the waiters told Anna that she had an admirer sitting in the pub. I had never seen anybody perk up so fast, and when she had to take the puds in, out came her small mirror, and she would check her make-up, put lippy on, and tried to tame her hair. Chris would not tell us who it was, and I said that I would stand behind the door when she went in again, and try and see who of the men's eyes followed her! There were only a few single men in the pub, all sitting at the bar counter having their before-bed drink, with their dogs lying at their feet, and all of them were looking at the sexy Anna. She was disgusted that I couldn't see who looked to be smitten!
Of course, after work we had to go for a drink, Anna now so animated she was like a bally wind-up doll, her movements fast and her smile as broad as her lips would stretch. We sat for a while, Anna's eyes roaming intently over every man sitting alone, when John, a guy renting the flat opposite our room from Joe, asked if he could join us. He was very funny, and kept on telling us that we were so very quaint! Whatever the man meant I never found out, but Anna, thinking that it may be her admirer, became so bally worked up, that he left us and went to sit with a group of other people! So he was off the list! And then, oh my good heavens, a man called Gordon, who looked like a tramp, as he had his own landscaping business, and did all his own work, but never cleaned himself up before coming into the pub, came over to our table, and asked Anna to have a drink with him! She was ecstatic, and poor Rosanne's eyes almost popped out when I left to leave the lovebirds alone.
Anna came up quite late, and couldn't stop talking about her man, and I was devastated, as I would never ever go with somebody who never seemed to be clean, and came to the pub in an old jersey full of holes! I told Anna to relax and go to sleep, as we had to be in the kitchen at seven to get everything ready, but she was texting all her friends and family to tell them about her man, or so I assumed, and when three oclock I was still listening to this peep-peep, peep-peep of her phone, I jumped up, grabbed the thing from her and threatened to throw it out of the window! She was aghast, as it was raining, and I think that she realized that I was not playing, so she meekl;y went to sleep!