chair-keeper

Updated: May 26, 2025

While her grandchildren played together at a little distance, she would sit and read the Debats, which she called "My old Debats!" as, with an aristocratic familiarity, she would say, speaking of the police-sergeant or the woman who let the chairs, "My old friend the police-sergeant," or "The chair-keeper and I, who are old friends."

Marcel Proust - Swann's Way