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from and what they were doing there. The old
man in his long blue blouse lifted his hand to his
béret, the old woman in her neat white coiffe
curtseyed to me with a friendly smile. They
said they had arrived there the same morning
from their village in Normandy on a visit to their
daughter who had been kitchen maid in the
Salpêtrière for over two years. It was a very
good job, she had been taken there by one of
the nuns in their village who was now undercook
in the hospital kitchen. But there was lots to do
on the farm, they had now three cows and six
pigs and they had come to take their daughter
home, she was a very strong and healthy girl and
they were getting too old to work the farm
alone. They were so tired from the long night
journey in the train that they had had to sit
down on the bench to rest for a while. Would I
be so kind as to show them where the kitchen was?
I said they had to cross three courts and pass
through endless corridors, I had better take them
to the kitchen myself and help them to find their
daughter. God knows how many kitchen maids
there were in the immense kitchen which
prepared food for nearly three thousand mouths!
We trotted off to the kitchen pavilion, the old
woman never ceasing to tell me about their
apple-orchard, their crop of potatoes, the pigs,
the cows, the excellent cheese she was making.
She produced from her basket a little fromage de
crème she had just made for Geneviève, but she
would be very pleased if I would accept it. I
looked at her face as she handed me the cheese.
How old was Geneviève?
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