Servants in France

Unfortunately there have been too many of them in my service. Unfortunately there have been too many unsatisfactory ones, and too many of the satisfactory ones did not stay long. My housekeeping experiences in Paris date from 1908 and during forty-five years many servants come and go for many different reasons. The memory of some of them is vague, even of some of them who were satisfactory and stayed for quite a long time—that is, a comparatively long time. But my memory is quite vivid of some who came and left within a day or two and that perhaps is natural.