'Tisn't every head of a family that can chuck up a job on the chance of finding another.

Starvation's been the lot of a good many what went out.

Those of us that stayed on got better pay than we did before, but then of course the duties are much more multitudinous." "They must be," said Yeovil, fingering his three shilling State document; "by the way," he asked, "are all the grass plots in the Park out of bounds for human feet ?" "Everywhere where you see the notices," said the policeman, "and that's about three-fourths of the whole grass space; there's been a lot of new gravel walks opened up in all directions.

People don't want to walk on the grass when they've got clean paths to walk on." And with this parting reproof the bi-lingual constable strode heavily away, his loss of consideration and self-esteem as a unit of a sometime ruling race evidently compensated for to some extent by his enhanced importance as an official.
"The women and children," thought Yeovil, as he looked after the retreating figure; "yes, that is one side of the problem.

The children that have to be fed and schooled, the women folk that have to be cared for, an old mother, perhaps, in the home that cannot be broken up.