Sir, Following a dispute with the local milliner, I find myself without anyone to repair the hat I wear for Sunday best. Maid Elly offers to help, she has previously worked in such a role. My hat is returned with a remarkable velour, and many did whisper
Sir, I have been told that my economy measure of making staff share both sleeping quarters and beds is improper and unhygienic. However, whenever I quietly peer through the keyhole to check upon their welfare, it seems that my staff very much enjoy shari
Sir, much commotion from the servants quarters. I race up there with poker in hand, expecting to find an intruder. Instead, I discover only maid Ethel, who explains that she is administering first-aid upon the postman, collapsed from overwork delivering
Sir, during a most enthusiastic debate with Lord Albermarle, on the matter of the British Protectorate, I do lose a cufflink. Only discovering the loss the following morning, I do instruct Maid Elsie to hunt for it. She does not find it, but I do find
My dear hubby, I regret to inform you my new lady’s maid Bonny has proved a most troublesome hire. I found the little tramp trying on one of my corsets! Needless to say, I’m disciplining her most severely.
Sir, Gussie Herbert informs me of a modern Vaudeville act whereupon a lady is cut in half ! I have witnessed this performance but I fear that the illusion has yet to be perfected
Dear Henny, A thousand pardons for my dearth of letters. My holiday along the Nile was dreadfully lost in the cataracts, and the heat has been most dreadful.