But she realized now that that could not be.

For a little while the two women stood looking into each other's face, with vacant eyes; then Hannah said: "There is no way out of it--she must have it; she will suspect, else." "And she would find out." "Yes.

It would break her heart." She looked at the dead face, and her eyes filled.

"I will write it," she said.
Hester carried it.

The closing line said: "Darling Mousie, dear sweet mother, we shall soon be together again.