’Oh wonderful to meet Mister Holm’ Maddie enthused brightly! It was meant to be surely! To have come here on a long shot and to have met someone she could be working alongside. ’I’m hoping to be an intern too, but thought he might put me in the translator pool – presuming I get the post of course!’ She had worried that her proficiency and the few that she knew might make her a shoe in for the translation service rather than where she was more interested.

’Forgive me mister Holm, but you sound as though you’ve lived elsewhere’ she remarked, ’I don’t venture to guess where for fear of offending you?’ she asked, setting aside her tea cup, the dregs, and her speculation of her future forgotten for the moment.

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