"It is a tall old, woman, they say, who comes up the stairs and into the room; but she does no harm to anyone." Next her room, along the front of the house, lay two other greater rooms, one with a fire-place and one without: then was my chamber, and then her father's: and upstairs were the attics where the men lay.

The maids lay in two little rooms above the kitchen.
It was mighty pleasant to me to be with my Cousin Dorothy.

She had changed her riding clothes into others more suitable for a country maid--with a white starched neckerchief that came down upon her shoulders, and a grey dress and petticoat below that.

Her sleeves were short, as the custom is in the country, with great linen cuffs folded back upon them, so as to leave her hands and arms to the elbow free for her occupations.

But most of all I loved her simplicity and her quietness and her discretion.