mothers'-helps

Updated: June 10, 2025

There was the aggravating fact that mothers'-helps, just as if they were ordinary people, must be fed; there was also the contingency that servants most strongly objected to serving a special meal even "on a tray" to one who was not of the family, yet who had airs above the kitchen. Except, then, when there were guests Miss Humfray must be accommodated at late dinner. Mrs.

A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson - Once Aboard the Lugger