The two forgave each other and were married.
If the position of the domestic, while living in the shelter of a family, is sometimes precarious, her situation, when out of a job, is often actually perilous.
If a girl has a home she goes to that home, and regards her temporary period of unemployment as a pleasant vacation.

But in most cases, in cities, at any rate, few girls have homes of which they can avail themselves.
"In no city," says Miss Kellor's report, "are adequate provisions made for such homeless women, and their predicament is peculiarly acute, for their friends are often household workers who cannot extend the hospitality of their rooms." I think I hear a chorus of protesting voices: "We don't have anything to do with the servant class you are describing.

Our girls are respectable.

They meet their friends at church.

They come to us from reputable employment offices, which would not deal with them if they were not all right." Are you sure you know this?
What, after all, do you really know about your servants?
What do you know about the employment office that sent her to you?
What do you know of the world inhabited by servants and the people who deal in servants?
Can you not imagine that it might be different from the one you live in so safely and comfortably?
Are you willing to know the facts about the world, the underworld, from which the girl who cooks your food and takes care of your children is drawn?
Do you care to know how a domestic spends the time between places, how she gets to your kitchen or nursery, the kind of homes she may have been in before she came to you?
Make a little descent into that underworld with a girl whose experience is matched with those of many others.
Nellie B---- was an Irish girl, strong, pretty of face, and joyful of temperament.