"There'll be work for him, too," she said.

"We need a man there.

He can do a deal of the heavier work--be porter you know.

I can't offer him very much, but it will help some." Mrs.Thorald accepted for both, and considered Diantha as a special providence.
There was to be cook, and two capable second maids.

The work of the house must be done thoroughly well, Diantha determined; "and the food's got to be good--or the girls wont stay." After much consideration she selected one Julianna, a "person of color," for her kitchen: not the jovial and sloppy personage usually figuring in this character, but a tall, angular, and somewhat cynical woman, a misanthrope in fact, with a small son.