At that meal she sat at the head of the table in the servants' hall, though she never troubled herself to carve anything except puddings and pies, for which she had a great partiality, and of which she was supposed to be the most undoubted and severe judge known of anywhere in that part of the country.
She was supposed by all her brother and sister servants to be a very Croesus for wealth; and wondrous tales were told of the money she had put by.

But as she was certainly honest, and supposed to be very generous to certain poor relations in Dorsetshire, some of these stories were probably mythic.

It was known, however, as a fact, that two Castle Richmond butlers, one out-door steward, three neighbouring farmers, and one wickedly ambitious coachman, had endeavoured to tempt her to matrimony--in vain.

"She didn't want none of them," she told her mistress.

"And, what was more, she wouldn't have none of them." And therefore she remained Mrs.Jones, with brevet rank.
It seemed, from what Lady Fitzgerald said, that Mrs.Jones's manner had been somewhat mysterious about this man, Mollett.