Jane And the Twelve Days of Christmas (2014)
“As she laid a new one, I raised myself on one elbow—Cassandra still slumbering in the neighbouring bed—and whispered, “What is the hour?”
“A little past seven by the hall clock,” she replied. “Will you be wanting tea, ma’am?”
This is the dignity that age has conferred upon me: at nine-and-thirty, I am to be addressed as ma’am. Oh, for the miss of yesteryear!
I ordered tea, and sank back into my pillows.
I had assumed The Vyne’s servants would already have quitted the place—it being customary to... give them a free day in place of Christmas, when servants are expected to wait upon their masters and silently witness festivities they cannot enjoy. But perhaps they should leave us at midday, when the house party had thoroughly awakened and might be trusted to fend for themselves. When the maid reappeared with my tray I enquired as to her St. Stephen’s Day plans, but her gaze fell as she answered.
“Indeed, and it is snowing that hard, ma’am, I should never try to walk the three miles home to my mother!MoreLess
“A little past seven by the hall clock,” she replied. “Will you be wanting tea, ma’am?”
This is the dignity that age has conferred upon me: at nine-and-thirty, I am to be addressed as ma’am. Oh, for the miss of yesteryear!
I ordered tea, and sank back into my pillows.
I had assumed The Vyne’s servants would already have quitted the place—it being customary to... give them a free day in place of Christmas, when servants are expected to wait upon their masters and silently witness festivities they cannot enjoy. But perhaps they should leave us at midday, when the house party had thoroughly awakened and might be trusted to fend for themselves. When the maid reappeared with my tray I enquired as to her St. Stephen’s Day plans, but her gaze fell as she answered.
“Indeed, and it is snowing that hard, ma’am, I should never try to walk the three miles home to my mother!MoreLess
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