[identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] sherlock60
Canon Story: A Scandal in Bohemia
Title: Situations Vacant
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Required for our client, a quiet lady, a respectable coachman to be based in a villa in St John’s Wood. One horse stabled in nearby mews. Regular hours. Uniform provided. Discretion and good references essential. Apply to Forbes, Norton & Mason, solicitors. Box 221, Inner Temple.

Also required, two experienced maids. Live in or out. References as above. Temporary contract.

Date: 2015-02-08 10:30 am (UTC)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
From: [personal profile] debriswoman
The posts sound highly desirable
Solicitors' names, particularly the middle one, inspire confidence. I am sure all references will be scrupulously checked:-)

Date: 2015-02-08 08:25 pm (UTC)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
From: [personal profile] debriswoman
Of course:-)

Date: 2015-02-08 11:23 am (UTC)
vaysh: (Holmes/Watson canon)
From: [personal profile] vaysh
Box 221? :) What an extraordinary coincidence. I love that you gave us this peek into what it must have meant to set up the household for Irene Adler.

Date: 2015-02-08 06:08 pm (UTC)
ext_1620665: knight on horseback (Default)
From: [identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
I see as well in the "Situations Vacant" column, a Mrs. John Watson is looking for a new servant girl...

Very elegantly done ^_^

Date: 2015-02-08 07:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mundungus42.livejournal.com
The incorrigible Mary Jane was one of my first thoughts when I read this advertisement :D

Date: 2015-02-08 07:28 pm (UTC)
ext_1620665: knight on horseback (Default)
From: [identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com
I wonder what happened to Mary Jane... I hope she was able to go home to her parents, rather than having nowhere to go. And I do like to think she was naturally full of confidence and ended up as more than a servant girl ^^

Date: 2015-02-08 07:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mundungus42.livejournal.com
I like to think she a Holmes spy in the Watson household (Sherlock's or Mycroft's), but that may just be my partiality to BBC Sherlock talking :D

Date: 2015-02-08 07:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mundungus42.livejournal.com
Discretion and good references essential. *rubs hands together gleefully*

So much excellence in and between these lines!

I'm certain the applicants were expecting the "quiet lady" to be the mistress of some well-to-do gentleman. I doubt they were prepared for what they actually found. :D

Date: 2015-02-12 08:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capt-facepalm.livejournal.com
Another wonderful advert!

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