The waiter, who was serving a meal to some engineers in the drawing-room, came up several times at her summons with a cross look on his face, but could not help fulfilling her orders; she gave them with such kindly insistence that it was impossible to disobey her.
El criado que servía la comida a los ingenieros en la sala común, acudía a veces a la llamada de Kitty con irritado semblante, pero no podía desatender las órdenes que ella le daba, porque lo hacía con tan suave insistencia que no se la podía desobedecer.