This chapter examines how working-class women born in Britain and their India-raised daughters understood domestic service. The slipperiness of status in India was most visible in the presence of servants in the homes and workspaces of British of all classes. Working-class women, many of whom had worked as servants themselves before coming to India, found themselves transformed into mistresses upon arrival in the country. Women could assign their domestic duties to servants, take them up again when they chose, and even take on roles as servants themselves. These changes in relationship to service came about not just as the result of changing financial circumstances, but in response to causes as disparate as the birth of a child or a change in the season. Working-class women born in Britain tended to see their status as employers as unstable, but that instability did not necessarily provoke anxieties over racial degeneration. Girls raised, educated, and remaining in India balked at the notion of going into domestic service, even as the schools designed to educate them attempted to train this second generation for that purpose.