Lords behaved differently.

Carinthia fancied the people must regard their master as a foreign wizard, whose power they felt, without the chance of making their cry to him heard.

She, too, dealt with a lord.

It was now his wish for her to leave the place where she had found some shreds of a home in the thought of being useful.

She was gathering the people's language; many of their songs she could sing, and please them by singing to them.
They were not suspicious of her; at least, their women had open doors for her; the men, if shy, were civil.