She remembered that Lady Anne had detested Lady Iniscrone to the extent that she would never have her inside the house.

She had an idea, which she could not put away, while she hated it, that Lady Iniscrone remembered that fact.

She took possession of everything thoroughly, as though she revenged herself on the dead woman.

In her cold speech she disparaged the things Lady Anne had held dear.
Their attitude towards Mary was as though she were a servant no longer necessary.

She was not to eat at their table; she was to eat in her own room or in the servants' hall.
"Is it Miss Gray, my lady ?" Saunders, the elderly parlourmaid, asked, aghast.