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They were not as happy in the new home as she had expected to be, but the fault did not lie with Katy She perfor shoulders the whole of the burden which her husband should have helped her bear Housekeeping far s out a husband's nature, for whereas in the latter case one rightfully demands the services for which he pays, in the former he is sometimes expected to do and think, and even wait upon himself But this was not Wilford's nature The easy, indolent life he had led so long as a petted son of a partial mother unfitted him for care, and he was as much a boarder in his own hohtlessly requiring of Katy more than he should have required, so that Bell was not far froht when in her journal she described her sister-in-law as "a little servant whose feet were never supposed to be tired, and whose wishes were never consulted" It is true Bell had put it rather strongly, but the spirit of what she said was right, Wilford seldo her wishes to interfere with his own plans, while accustomed to every possible attention from his mother, he exacted the same from his wife, whose life was not one of un that every letter home bore assurance to the contrary