It seems to be a part of my nature.

It brought me into this house--and it will go with me out of this house.

Is it my curse or my blessing?
I am not able to decide.
"On the first night when I slept in my new home I said to myself, 'They have taken me to be their servant: I will be something more than that--they shall end in taking me for their child.' Before I had been a week in the house I was the wife's favorite companion in the absence of her husband at his place of business.

She was a highly accomplished woman, greatly her husband's superior in cultivation, and, unfortunately for herself, also his superior in years.

The love was all on her side.
Excepting certain occasions on which he roused her jealousy, they lived together on sufficiently friendly terms.