She May Not Leave
Fay Weldon
Table of Contents
Martyn And Hattie Have Employed An Au Pair
Frances Presents Some Authorial Background
A Further Ethical Discussion After Supper
Agnieszka Comes Into Hattie’s Home
Frances Worries About Her Grand-daughter
The Effects Of Bricks And Mortar On Lives
Martyn On The Way Home From Work
Martyn Comes Home To Agnieszka
Glossing Over Inconvenient Facts
Men, Women, Art, And Employment
A Good Au Pair And The Promise Of Life After Death
Preserving The Peace Of The Home
Martyn Is Alone With Agnieszka
Agnieszka And Martyn Go Shopping
Martyn And Hattie Have Employed An Au Pair
‘Agnieszka?’ asks Martyn. ‘Isn’t that far too long a name? If she wants to get on in this country she’ll have to shorten it. People are just not familiar with sshzk.’
‘But she won’t want to shorten it,’ says Hattie. ‘People have their pride, and a loyalty to the parents who named them.’ ‘If we pay her,’ says Martyn, ‘she may have to do more or less as we ask.’
Martyn is in conversation with Hattie in their economical, comfortable first-time-buyers’ house in London’s Kentish Town. Both are in their early thirties, handsome, healthy and educated, and for reasons of principle not