I had returned to town that evening, and next morning as I was sitting down in my study to answer some unimportant questions Maxwell Hartington had sent me, my parlormaid appeared.
"The Passionate Friends"
Herbert George Wells
Lucy-who had a horror of the creature's uncanny looks-objected to Cockatoo waiting at the table, and it was only on rare occasions that he was permitted to assist the harassed parlormaid.
"The Green Mummy"
Fergus Hume
Mrs. Roughsedge stayed to give very particular orders to the house-parlormaid about the doctor's tea, to open a window in the tiny drawing-room, and to put up in brown paper a pair of bed-socks that she had just finished knitting for an old man in one of the parish-houses.
"The Testing of Diana Mallory"
Mrs. Humphry Ward