"Well, we all have parlour-maids," she said.
"That's an enormous difference."
She paused a moment.
"Ah, that reminds me," she said. "Jack, I interviewed a butler this morning, who I think will do. He wants about a thousand a year...."
Edith shouted with laughter.
"Poor as rats," she said, "and parlour-maids! Any other differences, Dodo?"
"I wonder," she said.