EMMA BROWN, MAID - DRAWING ROOM AND THEN TO FRONT ENTRANCE<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Emma, would you be a dear and get me some water. I am simply parched."</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><strong>"Yes, Ma'am."</strong>I bobbed a curtsey and vanished from the room, making my way to the kitchens as quickly as I could without my pace being unseemly. From the Drawing Room there were servant stairs nearby below the Owl Room tower enabling us staff to move about the house without cluttering up the main halls and stairs with our presence.<br/><br/>I reached the kitchen and descended the steps to the cold larder in the basement where the cheeses, butter, milk and meat were stored. There was a sink down here and since it's cistern was underground the water would be well chilled. I took a silver tray and a leaded crystal jug and added three Venetian glass tumblers before filling the jug and returning all the way to the drawing room.<br/><br/>I knocked again and entered and silently served the water, placing the tray on an occasional table and standing the tumblers beside it, filling one for the countess and leaving the other two if they were needed. Curtseying again I then withdrew, returning to my post at the front door where George was also waiting, having taken the lady's bags to her bedroom.