The long hours and the confinement of domestic service affected nerves adjusted to a legal fifty-eight-hour week.
But the girls' real objection to housework was its loneliness.

Hardly a single house in Boston, or the surrounding suburbs, where the girls found places, was provided with a servants' sitting room.

There was absolutely no provision made for callers.

For a servant is supposed not to have friends except on her days out.

On those occasions she is assumed to meet her friends on the street.
In England people recognize the fact that they have a servant class.
Every house of any pretentions provides a servants' hall.
In the United States a sitting room for servants, even in millionaires' homes, is a rarity.
More than this, in many city households, especially in apartment households, the servants are prohibited from receiving their friends even in the kitchen.