“Exactly. Isabel is rather beautiful, as I remember her. I saw her, I think, when I was there.”
“Yes; she is very beautiful—for a maid.”
“I did not talk with her at all, so you must tell me how she appeared. I got the impression that she looked rather above her station; did she appear that way at all?”
“Yes; I think she did.”
“How?”
“She is an educated young woman. I think, sir, that she had seen better days.”
“You think, then, that she had not always been a maid?”
“I think she had never been a maid to anybody until she came there to serve.”
“Ah! I see. Rather that she was one who had enjoyed being waited upon instead of performing the part of a servant herself.”
“Exactly that, sir. I would like to ask you, sir, if you looked at her very closely when you were at the Fells?”