The intruder wore her hair in a bun; she was dressed in a black cotton, floor length, dress with a white Peter Pan collar with a full apron. She entered Kate's room carrying a tray. The woman looked to over 30 years set a tray on Kate's dresser. The room permeated with the smell of warm maple syrup, baked pancakes, warm baked apples, cooked meat,and hot tea. The tray had two plates full food, two mugs that smelled of hot apples, two sets of silverware, two napkins, one class of cream, a small glass with a indented lip, and  a plate of several tiny yellow squares.  The lady, dressed in the white apron, removed a link of boar meat from a plate of pancakes. She barely waved the sausage link under Jasper's warm nose.<br/><br/>The lady in the black dress, saw of the largest cat with huge, fearful eyes, frozen laying beside Kate then spoke with a calm, soft, friendly voice,  "I want to be ya friend. Come take it, no harm will come you. I am the family head housekeeper and cook. Me name is Ann an if ya get hungry, just let me know. I will bring ya food until ya well."<br/><br/>Kate seeing Jasper, frozen lying next to her; the only movement she saw, was his tail over his paws.  Kate lifted her tail and placed it around him, "Ann, this is Jasper. Jasper, this is Ann. She is not a slave. Jasper,  you do not bow to her and you may talk freely to her. You will be seeing Ann a lot. You can eat from her hand; her cooking is delicious...very good. I hope you will like her. Ann is the head housekeeper and cook.  I love her like a mother. My mother died when when I was five. Ann raised me to be a lady."