The inn had a good reputation for hospitality in those days.

I hope they treated you well ?' 'Excellently,' said Redworth, taking an enormous mouthful, while his heart sank to see that she who smiled to encourage his eating had been weeping.

But she also consumed her bread and butter.
'That poor maid of mine is an instance of a woman able to do things against the grain,' she said.

'Danvers is a foster-child of luxury.
She loves it; great houses, plentiful meals, and the crowd of twinkling footmen's calves.

Yet you see her here in a desolate house, consenting to cold, and I know not what, terrors of ghosts! poor soul.