The Inconsiderate Waiter

In the world of the Victorian Club, it does not do for a gentleman to be seen to take an interest in any member of the working classes. How dreadfully inconvenient then, when the narrator’s waiter, begins to display alarming tendencies towards having a personality, a home life, emotions, and fears of his own.

The last thing any respectable gentleman should do is permit himself to be drawn into this other dubious world … let alone entertain emotions such as interest or pity for the underclass. So our gentleman is at great pains to avoid all of this. Great pains.