Bernard Murphy Melrose, the Bronx The writer is community servant (superior), Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.
This is a world where male servants enjoy superior pay and tips, but Albert is actually a woman, and on being forced one night to share a room with a house painter called Hubert Page, she fears exposure will ruin both her livelihood and life.
As the true nature of Miranda's secret becomes clear, the three characters are drawn together, with Adam taking on the contradictory roles of servant and moral superior.
Dependency on a superior's favour led civil servants to ally themselves with liberal public opinion, which was critical of the waste and corruption involved in political patronage.
The diplomatic corps think of themselves as a superior breed to the more plebeian civil servants at health, transport and the other domestics of Whitehall.
His superior leadership and administration skills coupled up with servant leadership model make him the most appealing man in India.
But, from their opening exchanges, there is not merely an implied equality but an assumption of superior wit and intelligence on the part of the servant.
Few biblical characters get more scorn than "The Unforgiving Servant," who asks for help from a superior, but denies it to a lower-ranked servant.
The BBC turned Kelly from a civil servant, who had had one unwise conversation his superiors could forget about, into a serial briefer against the government.
His superiors believe that Indian activists are responsible for the civil servant's death and news of the massacre at Amritsar foments unrest among the population.
Who would be able to say that the scientist was superior to the porter with admirable qualities as a father, the civil servant with unusual skill at gaining prizes superior to the lorry-driver with unusual skill at growing roses?
