Never in my life have I seen servants so well treated or anyone so good to them and gracious to them as you have been.

They might be in the household of a King for treatment.

And now, just as there is trouble, to go and act like this.

It's abominable, that's what it is!" Miss Trelawny was very gentle with her, and smothered her ruffled dignity; so that presently she went away with, in her manner, a lesser measure of hostility to the undeserving.

In quite a different frame of mind she returned presently to ask if her mistress would like her to engage a full staff of other servants, or at any rate try to do so.
"For you know, ma'am," she went on, "when once a scare has been established in the servants' hall, it's wellnigh impossible to get rid of it.