"Well said," she observed, when she saw a neighbour's little girl, her temporary servitor, coming up my walk with the invitations in a paper bag to be kept clean, "I meant to get my call made on you before your invite got here.
"Friendship Village"
Zona Gale
He was glad, later, he had exercised such control, for their arrival at the house was the immediate precursor of an invitation to share their midday meal, which had already been placed on the table by the silent, inscrutable Hip-Lee, the Chinese cook and general servitor in this temporary abode.
"The Son of his Father"
Ridgwell Cullum
She whispered a few added words of caution to the mystified old servitor, mounted, and started slowly down the road.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey