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Foreword
Although this book is about domestic service it is also about people, and apart from myself about one person in particular: Nancy, Lady Astor. There have been others who have written of my lady's personal and political life. Some have spoken highly of her, others have been savagely critical. I am not Uke any of them. To begin with, I haven't the use of words that they have, nor have I their education or their kind of background, so I have kept away from the parts of Lady Astor's life that I was not able to understand and have written about those that I could. This may have given an uneven portrait of her, but everyone has to write from a position and mine was at least one that kept me in contact with her every day for thirty-five years. There were times and places where I was not able