How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
She pressed an electric buzzer on a wall-panel of switches and buzzers; almost at once a cheerful (cheerful as a Tommy) brown girl glided in, bowing in spasms, dressed in servant's black silk-substitute. She was a pretty little orchestra of races and her name was Jane. (5.1.19)
After Prime Minister Starling's government is replaced by Prime Minister Ockham's, nuclear families become the model for upper-class citizens in Beatrice-Joanna and Tristram's world. Jane's presence in Beatrice-Joanna and Derek's household seems to suggest that the nation's return to "old-fashioned values" is also a return to racialized class systems, where brown girls like Jane work as servants in the homes of wealthy white women like Beatrice-Joanna.