People in her position sometimes gets a sudden let that pays them better than lodgers.

All classes has their troubles, and sometimes a decent house is wanted for a few months, where money can be paid.

I'll make her an offer." The outcome of which was that the widowed householder walked out of her domicile the next morning with a heavier purse and a lighter mind than she had known for many months.

The same night, ingenuously oblivious of having been called upon to fill the role of a lady in genteel "trouble," good and decorous Emily Walderhurst arrived under the cover of discreet darkness in a cab, and when she found herself in the "best bedroom," which had once been so far beyond her means, she cried a little for joy again, because the four dull walls, the mahogany dressing-table, and ugly frilled pincushions looked so unmelodramatically normal and safe.
"It seems so home-like," she said; adding courageously, "it is a very comfortable place, really." "We can make it much more cheerful, my lady," Jane said, with grateful appreciation.

"And the relief makes it like Paradise." She was leaving the room and stopped at the door.