When Lucy travels back in time, she is mistaken as a new scullery maid, yet she performs a number of chores that are either a housemaid's duty, such as making up fires and taking away breakfast trays, a laundress' duty such as taking down the linens and folding them which would never be done in a manor house without ironing them first or a footman's duty such as serving at an outdoor picnic. The only duty that Lucy performs that would be considered a scullery maid's duty would be plucking the chickens and even then, in a manor house the size of Langley Castle, that job would fall to a kitchen maid.