| Her mother, Julia, had married in 1867 and set up home with cook, kitchenmaids, housemaid, parlourmaid, lady's maid, nurse, nursemaid and gardener. |
| Vanstone dies, and Magdalen, disguising herself as a parlourmaid, penetrates the house of the trustee of his will to find the document which reveals the legatee. |
| It did, not least because it was conducted with terrific wit and brio by a woman called Sarah Pedro, proudly dressed as a parlourmaid. |
| Then catching sight of Dorcas, the parlourmaid, going into the dining-room, she called to her to bring some stamps into the boudoir. |
| 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. |
| Antoinette this is Brenda our parlourmaid, and Nellie our housemaid. |
