All domestic comfort was gone.
From early morning until late at night, she toiled harder than any servant in the house; and, with all, had a mind pressed down with care and anxiety.

Three times during this period she had been obliged to change her cook, yet, for all, scarcely a day passed that she did not set badly cooked food before her guests.

Sometimes certain of the boarders complained, and it generally happened that rudeness accompanied the complaint.

The sense of pain that attended this was always most acute, for it was accompanied by deep humiliation and a feeling of helplessness.

Moreover, during these first three months, Mr.
and Mrs.Grimes had left the house without paying their board for five weeks, thus throwing her into a loss of forty dollars.
At the beginning of this experiment, after completing the furniture of her house, Mrs.Darlington had about three hundred dollars.