Ida had requested her to open the house.

Ida's former boarding-house mistress had cooked a large turkey, and made some cakes and pies and bread.

Miss Zella Holmes drove around for Maria in a livery carriage, and all these supplies were stowed in beside them.
On the way they stopped at the station for the new maid, whose train was due then.

She was a Hungarian girl, with a saturnine, almost savage visage.

Maria felt an awe of her, both because she was to be their maid, and they had never kept one, and because of her personality.
When they reached home, Miss Zella Holmes, who was very lively and quick in her ways, though not at all pretty, gave orders to the maid in a way which astonished Maria.