An assigned servant had greater freedom than those in the Female Factory, but was away from the company and society of other women convicts, and under much closer 24-hour surveillance by the master or mistress of the house.

AV education; AV room

Silk grogans, satins, velvet fine, The rosy-colour'd carnadine, Your nutmeg hue, or gingerline, Cloth-of-tissue or tabine, That like beaten gold will shine In your amorous ladies' eyne, Whilst you their softer silks do twine?

There were no serious attempts to call it off and the warring powers remained acharné - to use a fashionable word of the day — until the end.