And even then, if one wanted to say it's just medieval realism. Their moods and expressions and the order they tell the protagonist things are just too damn inconsistent and strange: Like "oh, I see you're bruised honey, you shouldn't hide it from us, that's bad, incidentally we knew the bad lady we hired was going to do it to you [insert kind smiles]"—WHAT THE EVERLASTING FUCK.
I know it's probably just innocuously terrible writing, trying to be more serious while keeping some of the fluff I guess, but the incongrous mix of modern feel-good messaging and "spoil the rod, spoil the child" messaging just comes out as some sort of toxic gaslighting abusive shit that really is thoroughly stomach-churning. Even showing a little worry and concern from the family would have gone a long way.
Like, the horror of the church-messaging is spot-on (much more proper old-fashioned colonial Christian bullshit than that of the usual pseudo-Christians of villainousness in these things XD), the complaints about setting up ladies to be useless is spot-on—but whilst we're talking about victim blaming and fairness, we're just going to ignore her family being okay with the maid giving her bruises for having a lisp...? The series apparently not seeing anything wrong with that part is just rather alarming. And we're supposed to just forget about it all because her supposedly "over-protective" father comes in and mostly rights the situation?