Posted by Ed Kiser on November 01, 2008 at 15:39:18 user Kisered.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot layout posted by Mike Field on November 01, 2008 at 23:32:43:
In SD, CH27
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"Wouldn't I?" said Nancy, rolling over. "We had breakfast
awfully early because of saying good-bye to the G.A. But it was
worth it. Everybody thought so. We saw the housemaid dancing
in the kitchen. And cook said, 'Now we can breathe again.' And
it wasn't any good mother and Uncle Jim pretending. Anybody
but the G.A. would have known how they felt."
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This is the only time a "maid" is mentioned is in SD, saying that they were so glad when the GA left that the "housemaid" was dancing. When this event was recalled in PM, Nancy said it was Cook that did the dancing, with no mention of any maid. As to her being "live-in" or come from her home every day, there is no awareness of that distinction made.
In PM CH3:
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"Is she very awful?" asked Dorothea.
"She jolly well is," said Nancy. "You ask the Swallows. They
know what it's like when she's here. She spoilt everything for all
of us. We had to be in for meals and learn poetry and wear best
frocks and be seen and not heard and all that sort of rot. Ask
Cook. She knows her, too. She fairly danced when she went away.
Yes, you did."
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There was a young girl, Fanny, who came in to help Mrs. Jackson in WH, but she was never referred to as a "maid." But that has nothing to do with Beckfoot anyway.