The airline discovered that the uniforms, which feature grey jackets, skirts, hats and a red neckerchief, have long been in demand by consumers who like role-playing fantasies.
The door was opened by a swarthy foreign-lookingmaid, with a prominent bosom under a gay neckerchief, whom he vaguely fancied to be Sicilian.
She gave such a bound from the floor, as she clapped her little hands, that two stray curls fell from under her Quaker cap, and lay brightly on her white neckerchief.
As he accepts the ceremonial neckerchief from a shy girl scout from Lancashire, he is as straight-backed as any of the teenagers on parade.
