How dare that arrogant foreigner call her stupid! She was not afraid of his ill-bred rages. Why, he looked like a comic parody of the Kaiser! And how dare Baron Augustyniak, her master, dismiss her from the room as though she were someone beneath his notice! It took her some time to master her rage, but when she did, it was succeeded by a sudden and alarming flood of tears. She was not the crying kind; these tears were for her humiliation in front of her young friend Ellen, and her sense of failure in having let down Mr Quiller. She had only been in the house four days, but she was already beginning to think of herself as a bona fide member of the household. She heard someone push open the green baize door from the kitchen, and hastily hid herself in the recess beneath the staircase. Albert, the second footman, appeared, pushing a trolley laden with glasses and decanters. Rage and tears forgotten, Vanessa joined him. She realized that he was setting out the refreshments for the baron’s private meeting in the study after dinner.
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