Indian servants were commanded to do things, not asked.

It was not the custom to say "please" and "thank you" and Mary had always slapped her Ayah in the face when she was angry.

She wondered a little what this girl would do if one slapped her in the face.

She was a round, rosy, good-natured-looking creature, but she had a sturdy way which made Mistress Mary wonder if she might not even slap back--if the person who slapped her was only a little girl.
"You are a strange servant," she said from her pillows, rather haughtily.
Martha sat up on her heels, with her blacking-brush in her hand, and laughed, without seeming the least out of temper.
"Eh! I know that," she said.

"If there was a grand Missus at Misselthwaite I should never have been even one of th' under house-maids.