Each person if he is a single guest, has his own allotment, even to a separate tea-pot.
The table d'hote, if there be one at all, is made up like a select dinner party, rather early in the morning.

If the guests of the house are not directly invited, they are asked, in a tone of hospitality, if they will join in the social meal, the only one got up by the establishment at which the table is not mapped out in separate holdings, or little independencies of dishes, each bounded by the wants and capacities of the individual occupant.
The presiding and working faculty of a common English inn distinguishes it by another salient characteristic from the hotels of other countries.

The landlady is, of course, the president of the establishment, whether or not she calls any man lord in the retired and family department of the house.

But the actual gerantes, or working corps, with which you have to do immediately, are three independent and distinct personages, called the waiter, chambermaid, and _boots_.

If it were respectful to gender, these might be called the great triumvirate of the English inn.