Housemaid

That's what I call a self-evident proposition, as the dog's-meat man said, when the housemaid told him he warn't a gentleman.

Rima is a housemaid.

Rima became a housemaid.

Mary is a housemaid.

With a dramatic gesture, he pointed to a large splash of candle grease on the floor by the writing-table. "It must have been done since yesterday, otherwise a good housemaid would have at once removed it with blotting-paper and a hot iron. […]”

Giving that up, she took a broom and a duster and went upstairs to housemaid Mrs Dibble's bedroom, with her head tied up in a coloured scarf. It was a dusty, snuffy job, for penuriousness in Mrs Dibble refused to throw anything away, including dirt, and if anything fell on the floor it remained there.