Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert's appointment in the Times, calls him “an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him.”
If she had been a self-opinionated, domineering child, she might have become disagreeable enough to be unbearable through being so much indulged and flattered.
The idea came after an incident early this year at a three-star restaurant in Paris.Plenty of people have since come forward to complain of the treatment they received from despotic superiors.