He hired a battery of staff to help him with the daily chores, including a scullion (dishwasher), a laundress and a shoeblack (someone who cleans shoes).
I think it represents the seamstresses, the dressers, and then the laundry women who would have maintained clothes like this, who had tremendous amounts of work to do.
Lucie scrambled up the stile with the bundle in her hand; and then she turned to say " Good-night, " and to thank the washer-woman—But what a very odd thing!
" And, ma’am, " he continued, " the laundress tells me some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week: it is too much; the rules limit them to one" .
Poor as he is, he didn't forget a servant or a child in the house, and not a soul here, from the French laundrywoman to Miss Norton forgot him. I was so glad of that.