I was there at Lord Inverforth's three and a half years. War broke out in 1939. Everone had to register. I was engaged, and my fiance was waiting to go in the Army at any time. We got married in April 1940, so I left in March. If you married, you left your job automatically. Lady Inverforth's daughter had the flowers made up for my bouquet and arranged for the wedding breakfast. She gave me a pale blue jacket, it hadn't even been worn, and I had a dress made to go away in.

I kept in touch with people for a while, but the war disrupted everything. After the war, people didn't have servants in the same way.