So I never found out her history, and she won't have the priest.

I believe that's because she wants to die unknown, and doesn't want to confess.

I never saw a woman I was sorrier for, though I think she wasn't married to the man that left her.

But whatever she was, there's good in her--I haven't known hundreds of women and had seven sisters for nothing.

Well, there she is--not a friend near her at the last; for it's coming soon, the end--no one to speak to her, except the woman she pays to come in and look after her and nurse her a bit.