Sedela then read,
“Dear Aunty Mary,
This is just a line to tell you that I’m very worried about the things as be going on here.
As I tells you in my last letter, his Lordship’s been a regular visitor and I hardly dares to tell you that her Ladyship’s made up her mind to marry him!
If he does anything so foolish, all I can warn you is look out for trouble because there’s no doubt you’ll get it and all them as is with you at the Big House.
Most of them will lose their jobs. Like I tells you afore no one stays with her Ladyship for more than a few months and there’s them as says they’d sooner starve than work for her!
She’s only polite to me because she won’t find it easy to employ someone else as handy with a needle as I be which be thanks to you.
Her way with the rest of the staff is
