![]() My case is like the Dictionary, I thought. ![]() Over several years, Esme secretes a trunkful of words: ![]() The word is not discovered to be missing until 1901. I’ve been a bondmaid to you since you were small, Essymay, and I’ve been glad for every day of it”. Lizzie supplies her own entry: “Bonded for life by love, devotion or obligation. The word is “bondmaid”, which is exactly what Lizzie is. She places it inside a small wooden suitcase kept under the bed of the Murrays’ housemaid Lizzie. ![]() It falls under the table and Esme rescues it. One day, a lexicographer drops off a slip of paper. Sunnyside, the Oxford house where the dictionary was compiled. ![]()
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