She had a mean, lonesome life of it.

Sometimes now, when I go into that house where she lived so many years, I declare, the weight of the burden she had to bear seems to be on me.

It was a cruel life for a woman, and here's your wife wanting that girl to live the same way." "Wouldn't she have you after Susy got married ?" asked Henry.

The words sounded blunt, but his voice was tender.
"Didn't ask her.

I don't think so.