The Kitchenmaid

The kitchenmaid is only mentioned twice. The first time is when Alice Hartley finally meets Mr. Brympton after working there for a week, and she notices a change of atmosphere in the house: Mrs. Blinder, the cook, snaps at her “in a way quite unusual with her”¹ and Mr. Wace, the butler, carries out his duties as if he is “getting ready for a funeral”.²

^{_____________________}

1 Lewis, R. W. B. The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton. (Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1968. 457-474, Print.), 461.

2 Ibid.