In circumstances, then, they were happier than they had been for many years: nor was poverty the real reason for Hetty's going into service at Kelstein; since Emilia had been fetched home from Lincoln (where for five years she had been earning her livelihood as teacher in a boarding-school) expressly to enjoy the family's easier fortune, and with a promise of pleasant company to be met in Bawtry, Doncaster and the country around Wroote.
This promise had not been fulfilled, and Emilia's temper had soured in consequence.

Nor had the Rector's debts melted at the rate expected.

The weight of them still oppressed him and all the household: but Mrs.Wesley knew in her heart that, were poverty the only reason, Hetty need not go.

Hetty knew it, too, and rebelled.
She was happy at Wroote; happier at least than she would be at Kelstein.

She did not wish to be selfish: she would go, if one of the sisters must.