In the days that followed, word of the young master’s latest invention spread like wildfire among the staff of the Vanderbilt mansion.
Those who had been away returned to a strange sight: maids seemed to be spending an inordinate amount of time in the kitchen house and the latrines.
From the butlers’ perspective, the maids had suddenly developed an obsession with washing themselves twice a day.
It took less than a day for them to learn the
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