The Diary of a Chambermaid
“I have already explained that without being particularly devout I nevertheless believe in religion. For I don’t care what anybody says, religion is always religion. Maybe the rich can do without it, but for people like us it’s an absolute necessity. I know there are some people who make use of it in funny ways, and that there are plenty of priests and holy sisters who do very little credit to it. But that’s not the point. When you are unhappy—and in our job we have more than our share of unhapp...iness—there’s nothing like it for helping you to forget your troubles … religion and love. Though of course love brings a different kind of consolation. Anyway, even in the most un-Christian houses, I never miss going to mass. For one thing it’s an outing, a distraction, time won from the daily grind of housework. But the main thing is the friends you meet here, all the stories you hear, and the chance of meeting people … Oh, if only, when I used to come away from the chapel of the Assumptionists, I had chosen to listen to the very odd psalms that quite respectable old gentlemen used to whisper in my ear, perhaps I shouldn’t be here now!MoreLess
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