what does "would be his lot"mean? what does "lot" here mean? When Balint arrived he found that the portico steps were lined with waiting servants. On the lowest rung was the butler, Janos Kadar, grey and stooping, dressed in the long braided coat of the Laczok livery. It seemed as if he were so frail that he could barely support the work and worry that would be his lot that day. Be- hind him stood the hired footmen, and with them the odd-job boy, Ferko, who rushed forward to take Balint’s coat and bag. As he walked up the steps Balint told the old butler that before greeting the family he would like to wash o¡ the dust in which he had been covered during the drive from Vasarhely.