Essande said mildly, but with just the touch of firmness that an elderly retainer was allowed.

Isabel Darracott gave the elderly retainer the same smile that had won her admittance past two footmen and into the Duke of Marlow's London town house.

The elderly retainer did as he was bid and silently departed.

A wave of the hand dismissed the other dwarfs in the room, except for an elderly retainer who sat to one side, a book in his hands.

Purat, an elderly retainer, blinked as he saw the strange garb worn by his master, but Nu allowed no time for questions.

Gammon, the Professor's elderly retainer, removed the silver dome from the crumpet dish and asked, 'Is everything to your satisfaction, gentlemen?'

He made himself a promise that he would provide funds for the few elderly retainers who remained.

Mortified, Golo posts an elderly retainer as a spy in her bedroom.

'As you ordered, sir,' Professor Slocombe smiled up at his elderly retainer.

In 1890 he bought a property at Grampus Range, 21m south of Yunta, 49 km east of Oodla Wirra and 54 km south-west of Mannahill and established a homestead there, with an elderly retainer as caretaker.