The Strange Offer
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You are Miss Violet Hunter, a governess currently out of work and running low on funds. You have been called to a job agency where a boisterous, stout man named Mr. Jephro Rucastle has made you an astounding offer.
He is willing to pay you £120 a year—triple the usual salary! However, his conditions are bizarre. You must cut your beautiful chestnut hair short, wear a specific electric-blue dress he provides, and sit wherever he tells you to. He claims these are merely his wife's eccentric 'fads.'
"It is a little fancy of my wife’s," Rucastle says, smiling until his eyes are mere slits. "And so, you won't cut your hair?"
The money would solve all your problems, but the request feels wrong. What will you do?