Posted by Jock on January 26, 2007 at 15:18:10 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Hot-pot incident (was FRAM Stove - what happened to the ashes? posted by Laurence Monkhouse on January 24, 2007 at 22:22:57:
But an alternative scenario might be that while the bright young things were enjoying themselves on the ice the older generation - who maybe didn't even like skating - produced the hotpot and sent it down to the ice, carried by one of themselve
At the time of SA and SD Beckfoot had a cook, a housemaid and occasional handyman/driver. It is not unreasonable that AR imagined the house having a larger establishment during Molly Turner's childhood. (After all someone presumably would have been employed looking after the tennis courts, croquet lawns, horses and pigeons.) If the servants were there, I don't somehow see the GA (at that time only an A) and her friends bringing down the hot pot themselves. As for servants being part of "all of us" one need only to look at Paul Burrell's story (try Googling) to see that even at the start of the 21st C. servants are never part of "all of us".