Run Away Maid

My maid ran away last Tuesday night. I was very dissappointed by her running away. I didn't scold her or anything when talking to her about secretly owing the handphone and keeping contact with people that is unknown to us (dangerous, dangerous). She admitted wrong and appologies. Told her I would have to confiscate her handphone and she has no ojection to it. She say if I am not happy with her anymore, I can send her back. I told her that as long as there is no hanky panky from now on, I am ok to have her continue working with us. That why I didn't send her to the agent! I told her I prefer to be "terus terang" and will not keep record of her wrong and in the past, I have always forgiven her for things she does wrong and she knows that I don't harp on her mistakes.
I talked to her on Monday night. Tuesday, she work on as usual. In the evening, my husband called and told me that my maid said she wanted to go home. Told my husband will talk to her when I get back from work. didn't talk to her when I arrived home. In the evening we went to my brother's place for dinner and celebrate his birthday. The maid came along and she was her usual self. After coming home from my brother place, I took baby straight to sleep and I also didn't talk to the maid. I thought maybe just give her some time to cool down first and was thinking to talk to her only the next morning.
Alas, who know the next morning when we came downstair she has already gone, run away!! Thankful that she did not run away when she was alone with the baby and she locked the door nicely and throw the key back to her.
How did i feel? Like i mentioned earlier, I was dissappointed that she just ran away like that. Maybe I am just plain naive, expecting her to talk to us rather than running away as we have always treated her well. And yesterday, in church, I met other maid whom she talks to every Sunday. she was also surprised that my maid ran away. Because my maid told her that working for us is very "senang" and I give her lots of fredeom. (Maybe too much freedom that she finds time to socialise with outsider!)
Now, we are maidless. Learning to live without a maid can be quite a challenging experience. Only I have come to realise how dependent we are on the maid to do the chores in the house. Thank God that hubby is very supportive and is more than willing to chip in to help. We both have decided that we will try to manage by oursleves first before considering if we want to take in another maid. somehow the phobia is there about maid. We have treat our maid well and yet after 14mths she can still run away, what can i say??