We had come by train, carrying our kitbags-two orphans, fourteen and fifteen-evacuated from a war zone in 1944 and sent to the countryside deep in Sussex. We had not thought much about our destination nor the reasons that others must have had to send us en route. We were naive children to be servants dispatched from an orphanage. So we went where we were sent. We were too young to understand, or for that matter, to have choices.' Following her previous memoir, Matron's Garden, we find Anne-a child raised in a government orphanage and accustomed only to its rigid rules and pecking order-is free from the orphanage's clutches at last. Anne, along with her companion, Aggie, is suddenly transferred into service to a country gentry manor. There she is introduced to the English social strata, a harsh world full of upper class and lower class rules, where forgetting to curtsy can cost her a job. Yet there are advantages; the Martins, a husband and wife who serve as cook and butler, and her...

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