The Help / Прислуга. Книга для чтения на английском языке

I’m the maid, she ain’t gone win no friends talking to me.

“I was thinking maybe I could help out with the Children’s Benefit from home,” she say.

I remember then who she is. She the one Miss Hilly and Miss Leefolt always talking trash on cause she marry Miss Hilly’s old boyfriend.

“I give her the message. What you say your number is again?”

“Oh, but I’m fixing to scoot off to the grocery store. Oh, maybe I should sit and wait.”

“She don’t reach you, she leave a message with your help.

“I don’t have any help. In fact, I was planning on asking her about that too, if she could pass along the name of somebody good.”

“You looking for help?”

“I’m in a stitch trying to find somebody to come all the way out to Madison County.”

Well, what do you know.[22 - Well, what do you know. – (разг.) Нет, ну надо же.] “I know somebody real good. She known for her cooking and she look after you kids too. She even got her own car to drive out to you house.

“Oh, well… I’d still like to talk to Elizabeth about it. Did I already tell you my number?”

“No ma’am,” I sigh. “Go head.” Miss Leefolt never gone recommend Minny, not with all a Miss Hilly’s lies.

She say, “It’s Missus Johnny Foote and it’s Emerson two-sixty-six-oh-nine.”

Just in case I say, “And her name is Minny, she at Lakewood eight-four-four-three-two. You got that?”

Baby Girl tug on my dress, say, “Tum-my hurt,” and she rubbing her belly.

I get an idea. I say, “Hold on, what’s that Miss Leefolt? Uh-huh, I tell her.” I put the phone back to my mouth and say, “Miss Celia, Miss Leefolt just walk in and she say she ain’t feeling good but for you to go on and call Minny. She say she call you if she be needing help with the Benefit.”

“Oh! Tell her I said thank you. And I sure do hope she gets to feeling better. And to call me up anytime.”

“That’s Minny Jackson at Lakewood eight-four-four-three-two.

I tell Miss Celia Foote, “She say don’t tell nobody bout her tip on Minny, cause all her friends want a hire her and they be real upset if they find out she give her to somebody else.”

“I won’t tell her secret if she won’t tell mine. I don’t want my husband to know I’m hiring a maid.