Chapter TwoZainab now lived in her husband’s house, among a family completely different from her own with regard to class, status and way of life. She was often beset by confusion when her feelings clashed with the duties of her position and looking to her innocent mind for guidance she found no knowledge or experience to draw upon so that however hard she tried to adapt, her problems would not go away. The burdens that Hassan’s mother had previously borne were flung upon her shoulders so that almost overnight she became housewife to a considerable household whose domestic affairs she was expected to manage. Although her husband’s two sisters helped her at first, as they had previously helped their mother, they soon realized that they could take advantage of Zainab and enjoy a laxity in he
