He can give political information on both sides, incidents and anecdotes to match, whether you are Tory, Whig, or Radical.

If you have a bias in that direction, he has or has heard some thoughts on Bishop Colenso and the Tractarians.

In short, he caters to the humour and disposition of every guest with a happy facility of adaptation; and the shilling you give him at the end of a day's entertainment has been pretty well earned, if you have availed yourself of all these extra attentions which he is prepared and expecting to give for it.
The same may be said of the chambermaid.

She is not the taciturn invisible that steals in and out of your bed-room, and does it up when you are at breakfast or at your out-door business--whom you never see, except by sheer accident, as in the American hotel.

She is an important and prominent personage in the English inn.