Tom Jones Book 10, Chapter 4

Containing Infallible Nostrums for Procuring Universal Disesteem and Hatred

• As soon as the lady goes to sleep, her maid goes back to the kitchen looking for food.
• Everyone stands when she comes in, and she forgets to tell them to sit down again.
• She sits right in front of the fire and demands a broiled chicken right then.
• The landlady doesn't have a chicken, but she offers mutton instead.
• The maid gets very hoity-toity about having to eat sheep at this time of night.
• Nothing pleases the maid, and her manner is really snobby and high-and-mighty.
• (In other words, everything that the rich lady did to make the people at the inn comfortable, her maid does the opposite.)
• She says that Partridge may stay, so long as he is a gentleman.
• She asks about the "people of great quality" (10.4.8) supposedly staying at the inn.
• The landlady name-drops Squire Allworthy. She claims that his son is staying with them.
• The maid says she knows Squire Allworthy well, and that he has no son.
• Partridge answers that everyone knows this boy is Squire Allworthy's son, even if his last name is Jones.
• At the sound of Tom's name, the maid shouts, "Is it possible Mr. Jones should be now in the house?" (10.4.11).
• When Partridge confirms, the maid runs to her employer.