She was pleasant and friendly, but somehow "she was not," as one of them said, "of their sort." This they put down partly to the fact that she had been in service in London, and was not accustomed to country ways.
However, she was evidently obliging and quiet, and smoothed away any slight feeling of hostility with which the under housemaid was at first disposed to feel against her for coming in as a stranger over her head, by saying that as she had no acquaintances in the village she had no desire to go out, and that whenever her turn came to do so the other might take her place.

As Jane was keeping company with the blacksmith's son, this concession greatly pleased her; and although at first she had been disappointed that she had not on Martha's leaving succeeded to her place, the fact that she was but twenty-one, while the newcomer was a good many years her senior, went far to reconcile her to being passed over.
Mrs.Conway had not been twenty-four hours in the house before she discovered there was an obstacle in the way of her search that she had not foreseen.

She had dusted the drawing-room and dining-room, and then went to the door of the room which she supposed to be the library.

She found it locked.

At dinner she asked the other housemaid what the room opposite the dining-room was, and where was the key.
"That was master's library," the girl said.