You did not keep a servant, because servants were so complicated, and because they could do nothing whatever as well as you could do it yourself.

You had a charwoman when you felt idle or when you chose to put the house into the back-yard for an airing.

With the charwoman, a pair of gloves for coarser work, and gas stoves, you 'made naught' of domestic labour.

You were never worried by ambitions, or by envy, or by the desire to know precisely what the wealthy did and to do likewise.
You read when you were not more amusingly occupied, preferring illustrated papers and magazines.

You did not traffic with art to any appreciable extent, and you never dreamed of letting it keep you awake at night.