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...central character in the Scott family drama is Mary Rafferty. Mary was 16 when she left her Irish shanty in Pittsburgh to work as a maid in Ironmaster William Scott's mansion. The Scott Iron Works were still a young, vigorous business. Soon they were to produce shells that won victory for Dewey at Manila Bay. Later the Works descended from father to son, slowly losing their family stamp as they passed more & more into the hands of stockholders, corporation lawyers, bored Scott cousins...
...Mary Rafferty stayed at the heart of the Scott family life. From " 'tween maid" she became the trusted equal of the younger generation of Scotts. But because of her shanty birth she would never marry her lover, Paul Scott. Instead, she raised the children of his half-crazy wife, lived on unmarried in the lonely mansion after Paul's death...
...West Coast family gave the maid evenings off to go to night school, discovered that she had studied riveting and landed a job with Lockheed Aircraft...
...Chicago's suburb Highland Park, one harassed young housewife gets up early, prepares breakfast, packs the children off to school, sets about the housework-while the maid she has employed for five years sleeps till noon. The maid married a soldier at Fort Sheridan a few months ago, now rents the servant's room in exchange for a few afternoon's work a week. Occasionally she works by the hour for neighbors, earns more in 10-15 hours a week than she did as a full-time maid...
...body"; the old Countess "with a face made of Roquefort" and an "asthmatic and dribbly" Pekingese with eyes "completely outside of his head." In Haiti he meets the elderly lady tourist ("white hair, white shoes, white shawl . . . like . . . the whitewashed front of the hotel") and her ravishing Irish maid, on whose head admiring Frenchmen coyly dropped bougainvillea blossoms. In Paris and Manhattan he meets the Polish photographer Zygmunt Pisik, whose German mistress changed his name to Johann von Schönberg to start him off right. His French mistress pushed him right up the ladder by making him Henri...