Powell writes that the parlormaids would tell the other servants what the master and mistress would say about them. "'If I lived in a little country place I wouldn't bother about servants at all, they are only a nuisance to me,'" Powell says her employer told someone else. "'They quarrel among themselves, they want more money, and they don't want to work hard.'" Powell says whatever arguments the servants had, they always stuck together. "In that house, we were always united against 'Them' upstairs."
