Tommy and Co

'Tommy and Co' is a novel by the famed English novelist and humorist Jerome K. Jerome. Peter Hope is a successful journalist and being a busy man, needs a housekeeper to manage his house. One evening he receives a visit from Tommy, a young woman, or is it a boy, who is interested in the position. Against his misgivings about her true identity and her honesty, Peter agrees to try Tommy out for the job for a week. And as time goes on, Peter warms up to her, seeing in her the child he never had…