Her laugh reached the cook in the kitchen, who denounced Craddock the parlourmaid for not telling her it was Miss Nightingale, when it might have been a visitor, seeing no noise come of it.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
And Jenkins, the tender-hearted parlourmaid, allowed master to keep hold just to the end of the sentence.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
She may perhaps have stopped for a word or two with cook and a house-and-parlourmaid, who are deeply interested, in the rear.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan