She asks me such a lot of questions in her queer way, and stares at me so quiet.

She actually asked me quite sudden the other day if I loved the big Mem Sahib.

I didn't know what she _could_ mean at first, but after a while I found out it was her Indian way of meaning your ladyship, and she didn't intend disrespect, because she spoke of you most humble afterwards, and called his lordship the Heaven born." "Be as kind as you can to her, Jane," instructed her mistress.

"And take her a nice walk occasionally.

I daresay she feels very homesick here." What Ameerah said to her mistress was that these English servant women were pigs and devils, and could conceal nothing from those who chose to find out things from them.