Will you come into my room ?" "Yes, miss," Jane replied, with her usual respectful lady's maid's air.
It was in truth Jane's highest ambition to become some day maid to a great lady, and she privately felt that her association with Miss Fox-Seton was the best possible training.

She used to ask to be allowed to dress her when she went out, and had felt it a privilege to be permitted to "do" her hair.
She helped Emily to remove her walking dress, and neatly folded away her gloves and veil.

She knelt down before her as soon as she saw her seat herself to take off her muddy boots.
"Oh, _thank_ you, Jane," Emily exclaimed, with her kind italicised manner.

"That _is_ good of you.

I _am_ tired, really.