Do you remember how sad you were ?" "I was in what seemed to be an unreasonable distress.

I went away to weep.

My very thoughts were tired with their sorrowful journeys up and down my mind, trying to find out hope and only meeting despair.

Oh, my brave Jack! Oh, my dear Dare, what a cruel fate was your's!" "And mi madre, Antonia?
I fear, indeed, that she will lose her senses.
She will not speak to Thomas, nor even to me.

She has not said a prayer since Jack's death.