In her childhood's days, Fraulein and Miss Jebb soon found out that they could only obtain their desires by means of carefully worded requests, or pathetic appeals to her good feelings and sense of right.

An unreasonable order, or a reasonable one unexplained, promptly met with a point-blank refusal.

And this characteristic still obtained, though modified by time; and even the duchess, as a rule, said "please" to Jane.
But now a young man with a white face and blazing eyes had unceremoniously swung her round, ordered her up the stairs, and commanded her to sing a song over again, note for note, word for word, and she was meekly going to obey.
As she took her seat, Jane suddenly made up her mind not to sing The Rosary again.

She had many finer songs in her repertoire.

The audience expected another.