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I think I will ring for Nancy Pyrle" and she suited the action to the word; "I have not the least idea where my clothes are." Nancy obeyed the summons with alacrity. She could not help a slight start as she saw her mistress, looking like 'the picture of an angel' as she afterwards described it, in her loose white dressing- gown, with all her hair untwisted and floating over her shoulders.
The maid, Nancy Pyrle, was hustled off to 'wait on Miss Vancourt upstairs, and don't be clumsy with your 'ands, whatever you do! Primmins, the butler, was sent to remove the tea-things from the morning-room, at which command he turned round somewhat indignantly, asking 'who are you a-orderin' of; don't you think I know my business? Spruce himself, unhappily coming by chance to the kitchen door to ask if it was really true that Miss Vancourt had arrived, was shrilly told to 'go along and mind his own business, and so it happened that when Bainton appeared, charged with the Reverend John Walden's message concerning the Five Sisters, he might as well have tried to obtain an unprepared audience with the King, as to see or speak with the lady of the Manor.
Spruce was firmly rejecting it, Nancy Pyrle came down from attendance on her mistress and said that Miss Vancourt was going to sleep a little, and she did not wish to be disturbed till she rang her bell. "Oh, and she's beautiful!" said Nancy, drawing a long breath, "and so very kind! She showed me how to do all she wanted and was that patient and gentle!
She's the best I could do, Miss. Her name is Nancy Pyrle I'll send her to you directly." "Yes, do!" answered Miss Vancourt, with a little yawn; "And show me to my rooms; you prepared the ones I told you my mother's rooms?" "Yes, Miss," answered Mrs.
Don't be afraid to step inside, Passon; everythink's been turned out and aired, and there's not a speck of damp or dismals anywhere, and you'll see for yourself what a time we're 'avin' though we're gettin' jes' a bit straight now, and I've 'ad Nancy Pyrle as is 'andy with her pencil to mark things down as they come to 'and. Step inside, Passon Walden, do step inside!"
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