This was her second maid's room.
She was Angelica Simpson Jones, sister of Matilda, a poor, diffident creature with defective hearing and pitifully disfigured face.

And in the house were Mr.Pyecroft, and Jack and Mary, and Judge Harvey was a frequent visitor.

And besides these, there were all the other sources of danger! She was now poignantly awake.
While she was still in this process of realization, there was a soft knock at her door and a whispered, "It's Matilda, ma'am," at her keyhole.

She unlocked the door, admitted Matilda, and crept back into her second maid's bed.

They gazed at each other a moment without speaking.