I wonder you ain't ashamed to lay the things in such a state.' When she brought out the third lot Emily got mad, and when Miss Betty come out with the forks too--well, the storm bursted.

Emily was cheeky, I don't deny, and Miss Betty was rude, and I had to tell 'em at last that they must go out of the kitchen if they was likely to go on like that.

I wasn't going to have my place turned into a bear-garden." "Emily shouldn't have put down dirty things," said Kitty, loyal to her sister.

"She is always doing it, and she ought to know better." Her sympathies were all with Betty.

She may have been "tackless," as Fanny called it, but however kindly Emily had been told of her carelessness she would have been certain to fly into a rage; and they had put up with so much from her without complaining, that no one could accuse them of being fidgety or captious.
As a matter of fact, Emily, who needed a very firm mistress of whom she would stand in awe, should have been sent away long before.