CHAPTER FIVEPeskett was not the type of man that Bull would have picked for George Colton’s chauffeur. He was clearly not the sort of man to touch his cap and hold the door open with any kind of grace or suavity, even for a very respectable and prosperous merchant. Servants generally, male servants in particular, belong to that great class of people whose public and private lives have no connection with each other . . . like labour cabinet ministers, and interior decorators whose fathers are dukes. Publicly and privately their set-ups are as different as Fulham-road and Grosvenor-square. When they disappear from the eye of their public they reach a different plane of feeling and conduct; when they reappear they wear a mask that disguises them. Oliver Peskett was not like that, Inspector Bu
