Secret Nanny Club by Marisa Mackle

Author:Marisa Mackle [Mackle, Marisa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-01-23T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Years ago, an auntie of mine called Kitty told me about a cruise liner she had once been on. She had taken a round-the-world trip with some of the money she had got from her husband’s life insurance after he had sadly passed away.

“It was the most beautiful ship imaginable,” Kitty told me, “and the service was second to none. Every cabin was assigned its own personal butler. It was actually embarrassing how much they looked after you. Nothing was too much for them. If you so much as sipped from your glass of water, the staff would top it up for you the moment you put it down.”

Kitty had spent a lot of money on that cruise. No wonder the staff had been at her beck and call! She obviously tipped well too. I loved hearing the stories from the cruise and all about the characters that she had met on board. One lady on the ship was from California and had been on it for six months, probably because her family thought it was better than bundling her into a dreary nursing home. The Californian lady had been married four times but was a widow when she met Kitty. Kitty told me that the lady would arrive at dinner every night dripping in jewellery and would entertain fellow guests with wonderful tales about meetings with Hollywood stars. I was fascinated about it all, but especially about the private butlers whose sole job was to look after a single guest each. If the guest wanted the laundry done, he organised it; he made sure the cabin was full of fresh flowers; he would even come with you to the self-service buffet to make sure you didn’t even have to serve yourself if you didn’t want to. And he would dance with you in the evening if nobody else asked.

Now the reason I started thinking about Kitty’s butler on the cruise ship was because it seemed like I had my very own butler in the form of Tanya. Okay, she didn’t dance with me, but she more or less attended every whim. In fact, she was so attentive sometimes I had to ask her to take a step back. She wouldn’t let me do anything. She was up well before me, and had all John’s bottles made up and ready for the day, had the apartment looking like a brand-new pin, as well as having the coffee made and the eggs boiled as soon as I got up. Sometimes she would even bring me breakfast in bed. She was an absolute treasure. It was like having my very own butler although I wasn’t wealthy – far from it in fact. I didn’t know what I’d done to deserve this wonderful person in my home. In contrast to the last au pair who’d always looked like she was carrying the world’s worries on her shoulders, Tanya smiled morning, noon and night. John adored her and I found myself feeling normal again after the whirlwind of my pregnancy and then the months since I had become a mother.

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