We have really no servants, and we do everything ourselves.

I couldn't attempt to manage a house like this." He smiled at her kindly.
"Perhaps," he said, "you would find it less difficult than you think.
There is a housekeeper already, who sees to all the practical part of it.

She only needs to have some one to whom she can refer now and then.
You would have nothing whatever to do with the managing of the servants, the commissariat, or anything of that sort.

Yours would be purely social duties." "I am afraid," she answered, "that I should know even less about them." "Well," he said, "I have some good friends who will give you hints.

You will find it very much easier than you imagine.