omniscient 3rd, which is currently about as fashionable as chopine heels on men

I would support a revival of both.

What I rather like about the staff at Kingscote is they're often all too obviously not thinking about what sort of people they'll turn out at all--Crommie just seems to exercise her prejudices and favours at will--or they're thinking about it all the time, like Keith and Craven and Redmond--and doing it so magnificently wrong.