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THE EFFICIENCY STAR--AND BILLY.
Billy was not a young woman that did things by halves.

Long ago, in the days of her childhood, her Aunt Ella had once said of her: "If only Billy didn't go into things all over, so; but whether it's measles or mud pies, I always know that she'll be the measliest or the muddiest of any child in town!" It could not be expected, therefore, that Billy would begin to play her new role now with any lack of enthusiasm.

But even had she needed any incentive, there was still ever ringing in her ears Bertram's accusing: "If you'd tend to your husband and your home a little more--" Billy still declared very emphatically that she had forgiven Bertram; but she knew, in her heart, that she had not forgotten.
Certainly, as the days passed, it could not be said that Billy was not tending to her husband and her home.

From morning till night, now, she tended to nothing else.