Not that she was directly responsible for it.

She had not triumphed cruelly over her less happy friends; nor had she cried aloud on the street corners concerning her good fortune.

It was not her fault, nor, in truth anyone's.

But in a community where the "servant question" is even more vexed than in the country at large, where the local product is quite unequal to the demand, and where distance makes importation an expensive matter, the fact of one woman's having, as it appeared, settled this vexed question, was enough to give her prominence.
Mrs.Ellen A.Dankshire, President of the Orchardina Home and Culture Club, took up the matter seriously.
"Now Mrs.Porne," said she, settling herself vigorously into a comfortable chair, "I just want to talk the matter over with you, with a view to the club.

We do not know how long this will last--" "Don't speak of it!" said Mrs.Porne.
"-- and it behooves us to study the facts while we have them." "So much is involved!" said little Mrs.Ree, the Corresponding Secretary, lifting her pale earnest face with the perplexed fine lines in it.