A Scandal in Bohemia: Situations Vacant

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

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.

Comments

[debriswoman]

The posts sound highly desirable
Solicitors' names, particularly the middle one, inspire confidence. I am sure all references will be scrupulously checked:-)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Only the best applicants will be selected - Mr Norton will make sure of that.

[debriswoman]

Of course:-)

[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.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Miss Adler appreciated the irony of the number. And was grateful to her fiancé for arranging her staff.

[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 ^_^

[mundungus42.livejournal.com]

The incorrigible Mary Jane was one of my first thoughts when I read this advertisement :D

[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 ^^

[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

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Actually, when Mrs Turner became a landlady herself, she took on Mary Jane, who with a bit of the right sort of direction and encouragement soon proved her worth.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

This is what happens when you don't have the admirable Mr Norton checking the references.

[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

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Quite. Although it didn't take long for her to charm them and they became extremely loyal.

[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

Another wonderful advert!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you!