Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a car
That is being said, she managed to buy one soon after, when cars were still an exotic luxury.“I will confess here and now that of the two things that have excited me most in my life, the first was my car: my grey bottle-nosed Morris Cowley. The second was dining with the Queen at Buckingham Palace about forty years later.”Agatha Christie in her autobiography