She collects servants as other people collect prints or old china or Sheffield plate.

They are her hobby, and she has the most wonderful knack of managing them.

Even now, when good servants seem to have become extinct, and people who need five or six are grubbing away miserably with one and a charwoman, she has four pearls with soft voices and gentle ways, experts at their job.

She thinks about them all the time, and considers their comfort, and dresses them in pale grey with the daintiest spotted muslin aprons and mob caps.

It is a pleasure to go to the Jowetts for a meal, everything is so perfect.