| He picked up a twig from the ground and scraped the dirt off his boots before stepping into a small scullery and calling out. |
| It was whitewashed and had two bedrooms upstairs and a sitting room downstairs, plus a sort of kitchen and a little scullery. |
| Pity poor Lucy, the scullery maid, who makes the mistake of arriving at the front door of Manderston. |
| His still-life objects, of course, remain secular, but he endows them with an almost sacramental aura, into which he draws the scullery maid. |
| But achieving this state of godliness was left to the servants whose main domain was the kitchen and scullery. |
| She was an unselfish creature, he noted, up a full hour before the scullery maid, helping her with her work so that she might sleep in. |
