His honest liking for humble people was shown by the fact that he greeted all the old White House servants by name, even the scullery maids.
Ah Erh had slipped out of the room, leaving the two women screaming abuse at one another while a wet-nurse with Tseng Tsang-hai's grandson in her arms and a scullery-maid stood under the eaves outside, listening and watching.
The scullery maids fell asleep over the washing up. The laundry maid fell asleep while they dusted, polished and prepared for the party.
The relegation of France from top table to scullery would be an historic post-war shift.
If it wasn't, it was little Betty Butterworth, the scullery-maid.
"Martha," Mary said, "has the scullery-maid had the toothache again today?"
Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial, and the barrel of beer in the scullery was stove in with a kick from Boxer's hoof, otherwise nothing in the house was touched.
It was a little lattice window, about five feet and a half above the ground, at the back of the house: which belonged to a scullery, or small brewing-place, at the end of the passage.
