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Mrs. Schuster berates Melina and announces a week’s wages and hotel costs for two days, then turns the dismissal into deliberate abandonment in Tangier. Melina contests the timing and the promised travel arrangement to England, detailing how she has served as secretary, companion, and maid. As Ambrose Wheatley’s arrival complicates the employer’s attention, the break becomes inevitable, leaving Melina stranded and forced to seek help through formal channels or new work.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Chapter 1 1949  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>“You are both incompetent and impudent!”  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Mrs. Schuster rose as she spoke and crossed the room to the writing desk by the window.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>“Here is a week’s wages and your hotel room is paid for the next two days.”  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Melina could not help thinking that Mrs. Schuster was giving a 􀂭ine theatrical performance. This was not the spontaneous impulse o􀂭 the moment, but a carefully thought-out preconceived action.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Then, as she took the envelope automatically and felt it heavy with coins to make it exactly the right amount, she knew that whatever she had said or done that particular day the ultimate result would have been the same.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Yet because she was so desperate she had to argue.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>“I don’t understand,” she said.“I am sorry i􀂭 you did tell me to be back by two o’clock, but I certainly don’t remember you saying so and, as to bringing you a particular book from the English Library, I’ve never heard you mention it before.”  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>“You don’t listen, that is what’s wrong with you,” Mrs. Schuster retorted.“I did tell you to be back at two and I did ask you to bring me Rom Landau’s book on Morocco. However, there is no point in going over this again. It’s only typical o􀂭 several incidents in the last fortnight and I’m afraid I cannot put up with it any longer. When I brought you here, I was looking for someone who would consider me and my interests.”  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>“Mrs. Schuster, that’s not fair!” Melina broke out.“I have considered you in every possible way. You asked me to come with you to Tangier to drive your car and to do any secretarial work that was required – ”  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>“You can’t say there’s much o􀂭 that!” Mrs. Schuster interrupted.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>“No, not a lot,” Melina admitted.“But there have been other things.”  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>She was thinking, although it was hardly worth saying so, that Mrs. Schuster had used her in a great many capacities besides that o􀂭 secretarycompanion. She had acted as lady’s maid for one thing, pressing Mrs. Schuster’s clothes, packing and unpacking for her, carrying parcels up and down stairs and doing dozens o􀂭 small things that should have been done by the hotel servants.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>At the same time, Melina knew, everything had been perfectly all right until Ambrose Wheatley arrived. His appearance had been unexpected, but it had been quite obvious that Mrs. Schuster was not only delighted to see him but found that another woman making the party à trois was not at all to her liking.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Melina had not been so stupid as not to realise that Lileth Schuster wanted Ambrose to herself, and she had been as self-effacing as possible, making excuses to go out at lunchtime to see the museums and slipping away upstairs as soon as dinner was over so as to leave them alone.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>That might have worked i􀂭 Ambrose Wheatley had not shown her such marked attention.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>“Let’s drive along by the sea this afternoon,” Mrs. Schuster would suggest.“It’s a lovely day and I adore the way you drive, Ambrose dear.”  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>“O􀂭 course,” he would answer. “And what about Melina? She must come too.”  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>He would smile at Melina and, as he did so, she would see Mrs. Schuster’s eyes darken.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>It was annoying enough for her employer that the young man o􀂭 her choice should call her secretary by her Christian name while she kept very strictly to the formal, ‘Miss Lindsay’. But that he should wish to include her in the party was intolerable and she let Melina know it in no uncertain manner.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>‘It’s hopeless,’ Melina thought now, ‘and there’s no point in arguing. The break was inevitable.’  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>With a little gesture o􀂭 pride she straightened her shoulders.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>“Very well, Mrs. Schuster,” she said.“I accept a week’s notice – but – but what about my fare back to England?”  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>“I cannot remember that we made any arrangements about that when I engaged you,” Mrs. Schuster answered coldly.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Melina was so astonished that she could not speak.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>“I am afraid that I cannot take any responsibility for you other than to pay you for a week’s work you did not do,” Mrs. Schuster went on. “Mr. Wheatley and I are le\u003C/p>","cbCaibhg9GiGq9YL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibhg9GiGq9YL","pdf",1275316,186,"English","en",105,"# Chapter 1 (1949)\n## Confrontation and dismissal\n## Melina’s service and grievances\n## Ambrose Wheatley’s interference\n## Final notice and Melina’s options","[{\"question\":\"Why does Mrs. Schuster dismiss Melina?\",\"answer\":\"Mrs. Schuster cites repeated incidents over the past fortnight and claims Melina does not listen to instructions. 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