two
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And the reserves in the cellar were still considerable , and the sack of flour that encumbered the kitchen was still more than half full . The death of the faithful charwoman , when she heard of it , produced but little effect on Sophia , who was so overworked and so completely absorbed in her own affairs that she had no nervous energy to spare for sentimental regrets . The charwoman , by whose side she had regularly passed many hours in the kitchen , so that she knew every crease in her face and fold of her dress , vanished out of Sophia 's memory . Sophia cleaned and arranged two of the bedrooms in the morning , and two in the afternoon . She had stayed in hotels where fifteen bedrooms were in charge of a single chambermaid , and she thought it would be hard if she could not manage four in the intervals of cooking and other work ! This she said to herself by way of excuse for not engaging another charwoman . One afternoon she was rubbing the brass knobs of the numerous doors in M. Niepce 's room , when the grocer unexpectedly came in .