St.Clare, I believe, encourages her in it.

The fact is, St.Clare indulges every creature under this roof but his own wife." Again Miss Ophelia sat in blank silence.
"Now, there's no way with servants," said Marie, "but to _put them down_, and keep them down.

It was always natural to me, from a child.
Eva is enough to spoil a whole house-full.

What she will do when she comes to keep house herself, I'm sure I don't know.

I hold to being _kind_ to servants--I always am; but you must make 'em _know their place_.