Lady Victoria Campbell

18 THE HOUSEHOLD FRIENDS
would make with her were in amusing contrast to
the attitude of devotion and awe she had for one
who had been for all her life the centre of her homage
and service.
The notes made by Lady Victoria are placed here,
practically as they were written. They tell their own
story and need little explanation.
" Whatever the advantages the young generation
may enjoy, and no one doubts there are and will be
many, it seems pretty certain the ' family piece/ in
the form of the lifelong friend in domestic service, will
not be a feature in the households of a future day.
"The fact that more than one society offers a
reward for the benefit of young women who retain
their situations for three years points to this change
in modern life.
" The half amused, half scornful smile which played
on the face of one of these old servants, as she heard
the terms of this reward, would amuse my readers
as much as it did me.
"Lizzie King was a part of her master 's earliest
recollections, and naturally his children never knew
a time when ' Kingie ' was not part of their lives.
" The Duke used to say that the old woman, who was
housekeeper to the last in his service, was ' exactly
the same ' in outward appearance, as when a girl
she would open the door of Rosneath Castle to him
and his elder brother, when they came across the loch
for a day's shooting in the woods.
"It is difficult to describe her appearance. To us
she seemed so much a part of our lives. I recall the