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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How do we get out of doing our hosts’ cleaning?

5 February 2022

9:00 AM

5 February 2022

9:00 AM

Q. My husband and I have made friends with two distinguished, although fairly eccentric, writers whose company we thoroughly enjoy. However when we go to stay with them in their large London house they give us rather too many jobs to do. Of course we don’t mind helping out with food preparation, dishwashers, laying tables — we would expect to do this as, unlike us, they have no staff.

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