A female servant to wash dishes for an evening dinner party
Excerpt: "Next Mrs. Crupp said it was clear she couldn't be in two places at once (which I felt to be reasonable), and that 'a young gal' stationed in the pantry with a bedroom candle, there never to desist from washing plates, would be indispensable. I said, what would be the expense of this young female? and Mrs. Crupp said she supposed eighteenpence would neither make me nor break me."
Bibliographic Data
Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield
Location: p. 252