Get breakfast and set and serve it for servants and dining-room.
Clear and wash up. Knife cleaning. Area or backyards to brush out. Kitchen and back premises to clean.
Housework and turning out of rooms. Polishing bright metal, silver cleaning and pantry work of all kinds.
Cooking, washing up and cleaning after cooking. Keep a supply of coal ready.
Laying, serving, and washing up lunch and servants' dinner.
Tidying the washstands after lunch.
Tea. Shutting up rooms, bedroom work, hot water, etc. Wash up tea.
Dinner. Cooking, washing up and tidying. Pantry work. Servants' supper. Bedroom work, hot bottles. Bed.
These duties entail rising at any hour between six and seven, bed at any time between nine and eleven, at the best a fourteen and a half hours' day, during which hours in an easy situation the maid will have two and a half hours for meals (though parlourmaids and general servants cannot always enjoy uninterrupted meals), and about one and a half hours for reading, working, etc., leaving a ten-hour working day. From this deduct half a day a week and half of each alternate Sunday.