She could see exactly how it had been done, and comprehended quite clearly a lack of enthusiasm in the presence of orders from the Great House.
"All work will be paid for," she said.

"Each week the workmen will receive their wages.

They may be sure.

I will be responsible." "Thank you, miss," said Buttle, and he half unconsciously touched his forehead again.
"In a place like this," the young lady went on in her mellow voice, and with a reflective thoughtfulness in her handsome eyes, "on an estate like Stornham, no work that can be done by the villagers should be done by anyone else.

The people of the land should be trained to do such work as the manor house, or cottages, or farms require to have done." "How did she think that out ?" was Buttle's reflection.