She said: "Lord love you, what should I want to go and be a bally
idiot like that for?"

And we have not liked to put the question elsewhere since then.

The other type of servant-girl on the stage--the villa
servant-girl--is a very different personage. She is a fetching little
thing, dresses bewitchingly, and is always clean. Her duties are to
dust the legs of the chairs in the drawing-room. That is the only
work she ever has to do, but it must be confessed she does that
thoroughly. She never comes into the room without dusting the legs of
these chairs, and she dusts them again before she goes out.

If anything ought to be free from dust in a stage house, it should be
the legs of the drawing-room chairs.

She is going to marry the man-servant, is the stage servant-girl, as
soon as they have saved up sufficient out of their wages to buy a
hotel. They think they will like to keep a hotel. They don't
understand a bit about the business, which we believe is a complicated
one, but this does not trouble them in the least.

They quarrel a good deal over their love-making, do the stage
servant-girl and her young man, and they always come into the
drawing-room to do it. They have got the kitchen, and there is the
garden (with a fountain and mountains in the background--you can see
it through the window), but no! no place in or about the house is good
enough for them to quarrel in except the drawing-room. They quarrel
there so vigorously that it even interferes with the dusting of the
chair-legs.