ExcerptWhen your master stopped here t'other day, on his way to the Sout said she, he had nobody with him but you. But now that he's coming home, he orders dinner for two in a private room, and for one in the kitchen besides yourself. How comes that?Because he's bringing home the young mistress and her waiting-woman. Young mistress, d'ye say? What, then, has Mr. Foxwell been married? Is that what he went South for? Oh, God forbid! No, ma'am, 'tis his niece, Miss Foxwell, he's fetching home. She's been reared by an aunt on her mother's side, but now her education is finished, and, according to her grand father's will, she comes home to Foxwell Court.
The Flight of Georgiana : A Story of Love and Peril in England In 1746