Such habits speak for themselves.
"Mamma!"-- she took off her gloves energetically as she spoke--"there is nothing for it but to ask Louise to get up and do the milking--the mere milking--and I will carry the pails." Louise was the pale-faced Canadian servant.

She often told them she preferred to be called "Loulou," but in this she was not indulged.
Mrs.Rexford stirred Dottie's porridge in a small saucepan.

Said she, "When Gertrude Bennett is forced to milk her cows, she waits till after dark; her mother told me so in confidence.

Yes, child, yes"-- this was to Dottie who, beginning to whimper, put an end to the conversation.
Sophia did not wait till after dark: it might be an excellent way for Miss Bennett, but it was not her way.

Neither did she ask her younger sisters to help her, for she knew that if caught in the act by any acquaintance the girls were at an age to feel an acute distress.