Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Octave of Claudius
It was late one evening. Mrs. Wycherley's guests had all gone she had interviewed the hired man in the hall, paid him, swung back into the room again with a declaration that Jameson was invaluable, and now sat down in her rocking-chair, facing her daughter, fanning herself rather vehemently with a fan that had been mended.
Oh yes, Angela, you may say what you like, but there's never any need to tell Jameson anything. Why he goes on the job instead of taking a permanent place is more than I can imagine. He's just the picture of the perfect butler.
All right, mamma, all right I said Angela, rather irritably. He does, but you needn't think that he deceives anybody.
I don't wish that he should, dear far from it. The queen herself may know that he's hired for the evening for all that I care.
When one is entertaining a great number of people, one supplements one's staff. The very best people have to do it.
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