"Yes, child. She is daughter of a widow in the village. Maids are so hard to teach, now-a-days, that I have put her about me young. She's an apt scholar and will do well. She shows the house already, very pretty. She lives with me at my table here."
"I hope I have not driven her away?"

"Yes, child. She is daughter of a widow in the village. Maids are hard to teach, but she's an apt scholar and will do well. She shows visitors around very prettily. She lives with me here."
"I hope I have not driven her away?"
