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It's odd to have someone (whom I barely know) dwelling as well as myself in the same apartments - someone who's come to do my bidding (within reason) if I'm pleased to ask her to cook, fetch or clean. It's been a new manner of relationship - slipping back towards master and slave, but now founded on assumptions of egalitarian rights, which might curtail such abuse of her human dignity. Figuring out our respective positions is a task we ask of each other - though in some respects I'd prefer it if word came down to us from authority (no longer extant) on correct deportment within evolving society.      It's all so different from times of old,      with new requirements which don't fit the mould.