They had all gone to the Opera, the parlormaid told him.
Then he realized how much at the very moment the parlormaid told him of Stella's return he had feared such a return was the prelude to disaster.
He looked at the tortoise-mouthed parlormaid with a new interest, until she became waxily pink under his stare.
Michael drove along to Cheyne Walk, and when he reached home, it caused the parlormaid not a flicker to receive him and to take his luggage and inquire what should be obtained for his lunch.
Her part was a very small one, that of a parlormaid only, but it did not prevent her going through the usual phases of stage fright at the first performance.
He merely supposed that she was more subtle than Maggy, one who could ape superior manners, much as an astute parlormaid can.
The parlormaid goes out and returns with the visitor.
Not a speck of dust is visible: it is clear that there are at least two housemaids and a parlormaid downstairs, and a housekeeper upstairs who does not let them spare elbow-grease.
The parlormaid goes out; and Ramsden returns to the fireplace, as to a fortified position].
He lives with a parlormaid who respectfully calls him Your Honor.
Jill was talking to the parlormaid whose head had popped up over the banisters flanking the stairs that led to the kitchen.
Boards announcing that the house was for sale appeared against the railings through which Jane the parlormaidconducted her daily conversations with the tradesmen.
In the hall below, the parlormaid Annie encountered Mrs. Heth, waked from her nap by the two rings at the bell.
The parlormaid Annie entered, announcing Mrs. Berkeley Page to see Miss Carlisle.
