comforts

But beneath her white guilt she’s ultimately just as attached to the creature comforts of American wealth as the rest of her family.

When this postcard was made, probably in the early 1950s, Deodar House had become a hotel/boarding house with “appointments and comforts of your own home in a magnificent five-acre setting ….”

"She is enjoying some of the home comforts that most of us take for granted," Mr Burke said.

Nancy Robinette as Marína, the elderly nanny who comforts those she has long served with maternal acceptance, maintains the long view in a household caught up in short-term squabbles.

Homes can be connected to any city’s electric grid and sewer line, and outfitted with the same creature comforts as any other modern-day abode.