Thinks she's above the rest
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— Pensa, que por estar servindo na sala é melhor do que as outras, e não faz caso de ninguem.
'She thinks that because she serves in the parlour she's better than the others, and takes no notice of anyone.'
Rosa's charge is the classic resentment of the field-slave for the house-slave — that Isaura holds herself above them. There may be a grain of truth in it (Isaura is set apart), but the narrator has already shown us her humility at the wheel; the accusation is really Rosa's own wound, dressed as class solidarity.
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