first pointing out where they must stow them, and enjoining on them to
return them safe and sound when done with.

As to the other things which we should only use on feast-days, or for
the entertainment of guests, or on other like occasions at long
intervals, we delivered them one and all to our housekeeper. Having
pointed out to her their proper places, and having numbered and
registered[13] the several sets of articles, we explained that it was
her business to give out each thing as required; to recollect to whom
she gave them; and when she got them back, to restore them severally
to the places from which she took them. In appointing our housekeeper,
we had taken every pains to discover some one on whose self-restraint
we might depend, not only in the matters of food and wine and sleep,
but also in her intercourse with men. She must besides, to please us,
be gifted with no ordinary memory. She must have sufficient
forethought not to incur displeasure through neglect of our interests.
It must be her object to gratify us in this or that, and in return to
win esteem and honour at our hands. We set ourselves to teach and
train her to feel a kindly disposition towards us, by allowing her to
share our joys in the day of gladness, or, if aught unkind befell us,
by inviting her to sympathise in our sorrow. We sought to rouse in her
a zeal for our interests, an eagerness to promote the increase of our
estate, by making her intelligent of its affairs, and by giving her a
share in our successes. We instilled in her a sense of justice and
uprightness, by holding the just in higher honour than the unjust, and
by pointing out that the lives of the righteous are richer and less
servile than those of the unrighteous; and this was the position in
which she found herself installed in our household.[14]

[13] Or, "having taken an inventory of the several sets of things."