| It did, not least because it was conducted with terrific wit and brio by a woman called Sarah Pedro, proudly dressed as a parlourmaid. |
| You mean the parlourmaid at the Clarewoods' house? |
| Then catching sight of Dorcas, the parlourmaid, going into the dining-room, she called to her to bring some stamps into the boudoir. |
| As our family grew we'd hired more servants so that now we had a parlourmaid, two housemaids, two kitchenmaids, a scullerymaid, Mrs. Benson, Mr. Richards and the cook. |
| By Edith Templeton The New Yorker, September 30, 1961P. 42 When the writer was 11, she and her mother spent the summer at her Grandmother's castle in Bohemia, Emma, their parlourmaid from England, came with them. |
| Her mother, Julia, had married in 1867 and set up home with cook, kitchenmaids, housemaid, parlourmaid, lady's maid, nurse, nursemaid and gardener. |
