The lift conveniently brought her to the upper floor beside Georgia’s room, where a small storeroom existed originally. Malee lifted the vacuum cleaner out of the lift, and into Georgia’s room to clean up before Georgia coming back for lunch. It was a hard work, but she couldn’t ask the rest of the servants to do so. Thankfully, the room was smaller than George’s room, she thought and sighed at the same time because she would have to do the same for George’s room since he was also coming back soon. With a deep breath, Malee plugged the vacuum cleaner into the power socket by the door and powered on the machine. She started cleaning the spots near the door and worked her way towards the bed, under it and the opposite corners till it satisfied her with herself.
It was another hour till she had completed cleaning the bathroom as well and she was about to go out of the room to George’s room when the door opened with Georgia coming in. It was an awkward moment with Mary close behind her.
“You should have taken out that Vacuum cleaner earlier.” said Mary immediately once she realized the situation they were in. It would be hard to justify to Georgia that her room was not being cleaned regularly while she was away. Malee understood the hint and quickly bowed to apologize before quickly walking past them with the vacuum cleaner dragging behind her. Mary closed the door behind her as Malee sighed a breath of relief at the great escape. She wondered if Georgia would have noticed that the vacuum cleaner’s dust bag was bulging when she walked past her. With Georgia’s room cleaned, Malee strolled to George’s room and opened the door.
They had not cleaned nor tidied his room for a while and it showed. Malee could see a few white spots of dusts in the floating in the air and on the floor. Just as she was about to plug in the socket, Mary dropped into the room.
“Help Georgia with the bath. Then lunch. I have asked the cook to prepare for her.” said Mary as she took the power plug from Malee. Malee nodded and rushed back to Georgia’s room, where Georgia was changing into her bathrobe from the wardrobe. She sighed as she looked at herself in the mirror. She couldn’t see her face, but the bathrobe barely covered below her knees. She would need to go shopping soon or else she would have to shrink her body back to her childhood size.
She turned around to see Malee coming into the room, breathless. She must have run over here after Mary had told her to do so.
“Out of breath from taking out a vacuum cleaner?” said Georgia. Malee stood upright and shook her head slowly. She took a few moments for her breath to stabilize from running down the hall before replying.
“No. I am ok. Shall I make the bath now?” said Malee. Georgia nodded.
Malee went into the bathroom and turned the cold and hot water tab together. It was pure luck that John had fixed the pipes recently when they were cleaning the hallway and the stairs. Or else, it would be a disaster if there were no hot water for the bath. Scented bottles. They cleared the cabinet of everything after Georgia had left, so there were no bottles. Malee quickly run out of the bathroom, back to the hallway and then to the relocated storeroom beside the lift. There should be fresh bottles they had purchased for mistress somewhere there. She managed to find them near the corner and brought them back into the bathroom.
She poured the bottles as she remembered and reminded herself to order a few more for the mistress and George. Suddenly, she had a lot of things to remember and it was just as well that the final examinations were over. She wondered what would have happened if Georgia had come home a few weeks earlier. The bath was ready with the water level and the overall temperature at the right amount as she remembered preparing for Georgia. Malee got up and walked out of the bathroom to inform Georgia.