"Her Ladyship thought the world of Miss Gray.

She might have been her own child.

And I will say, though we didn't hold with it at first, yet----" Lady Iniscrone closed the discussion haughtily.
"Miss Gray will have her meals in the servants' hall, or in her own room if she prefers it, till after the funeral.

We shall make other arrangements then, of course." Saunders flounced out of the room.

Although she was elderly and had lived in Lady Anne Hamilton's house since she was fourteen, when she had come as a between-maid, she had not forgotten how to flounce.
"Mark my words," she said in the kitchen, "she'll make a clean sweep of us, same as Miss Mary, as soon as ever the funeral is over.