It was Harmon Gow who suggested that the narrator employ the title character as a driver.  
In this book's first chapter, the title character becomes jealous of the son of grocer Michael Easy after seeing him dance with a girl.  In the conclusion, Mrs. Varnum and Mrs. Hale are surprised by the narrator's account of his visit to the title character's house.  It was Harmon Gow who suggested that the narrator employ the title character as a driver.  That narrator is an engineer on temporary assignment for a power company in Corbury Junction, who takes shelter in the title character's farmhouse when a snowstorm disrupts a journey to Starkfield.  He learns that the title character gave up on his education to take care of his ailing mother with the help of his future wife Zeena, whose own illness led to the employment of Mattie Silver.  FTP, name this work in which a sledding accident doesn't prove fatal, a novella by Edith Wharton.
In this book's first chapter, the title character becomes jealous of the son of grocer Michael Easy after seeing him dance with a girl.  
Ethan Frome