Harriet - at this point, as opposed to with the DD - is asking about procedures a bit here, I think. She's never lived with personal servants in the same way as Peter, even assuming that her childhood home involved a maid and a cook, Bunter is still different, being Peter's manservant-acting-as-general-factotum. So she's not wanting to tread on his toes here professionally as much as personally, in a rather odd situation. We know that Peter's thought about it in general, in that the DD recruits the London servants, but there doesn't really seem to be much of suggestion that he has thought about how Harriet and Peter will cope with each other personally until the Moment Arrives. Which is the benefit of his position, in that he hasn't had to whilst B and H both separately have.
Or just trying to keep occupied until they bloody get out of bed.
Re. the early morning, you forget finding the fire-dogs in the coal house, pumping up the cistern, and putting the oil stove in order. Given the ill-soundproofed ceiling, perhaps he was looking for outdoor jobs to do. He sources eggs and bacon from the visiting baker. (My God! Eight o'clock. Allowing for Peter arriving upstairs at c. 12:30am, and hoping that the "night's proceedings" - at each end of the night - involve a bit of foreplay, how much sleep have they not got?)
I look forward to the outcome of the nefarious purposes of your own. I think there's quite a bit of Bunter POV tucked away in the text, but it lurks in the middle of things and is easily missable. And it still often doesn't say exactly what he's thinking.
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Re: Busman's menage a trois
Date: 2010-04-20 02:24 pm (UTC)Harriet - at this point, as opposed to with the DD - is asking about procedures a bit here, I think. She's never lived with personal servants in the same way as Peter, even assuming that her childhood home involved a maid and a cook, Bunter is still different, being Peter's manservant-acting-as-general-factotum. So she's not wanting to tread on his toes here professionally as much as personally, in a rather odd situation. We know that Peter's thought about it in general, in that the DD recruits the London servants, but there doesn't really seem to be much of suggestion that he has thought about how Harriet and Peter will cope with each other personally until the Moment Arrives. Which is the benefit of his position, in that he hasn't had to whilst B and H both separately have.
Or just trying to keep occupied until they bloody get out of bed.
Re. the early morning, you forget finding the fire-dogs in the coal house, pumping up the cistern, and putting the oil stove in order. Given the ill-soundproofed ceiling, perhaps he was looking for outdoor jobs to do. He sources eggs and bacon from the visiting baker. (My God! Eight o'clock. Allowing for Peter arriving upstairs at c. 12:30am, and hoping that the "night's proceedings" - at each end of the night - involve a bit of foreplay, how much sleep have they not got?)
I look forward to the outcome of the nefarious purposes of your own. I think there's quite a bit of Bunter POV tucked away in the text, but it lurks in the middle of things and is easily missable. And it still often doesn't say exactly what he's thinking.