Once a week a charwoman comes to help this servant.

These are all the persons who, on ordinary occasions, have means of access to the interior of the house, placed, as a matter of course, at their disposal.

Mr.Yatman has been in business for many years, carrying on his affairs prosperously enough to realize a handsome independence for a person in his position.
Unfortunately for himself, he endeavored to increase the amount of his property by speculating.

He ventured boldly in his investments; luck went against him; and rather less than two years ago he found himself a poor man again.

All that was saved out of the wreck of his property was the sum of two hundred pounds.
Although Mr.Yatman did his best to meet his altered circumstances, by giving up many of the luxuries and comforts to which he and his wife had been accustomed, he found it impossible to retrench so far as to allow of putting by any money from the income produced by his shop.