When she spoke of a few days being wanted her friend himself did not know how far her narrative went, not having had leisure to arrange what he had written.
After her death he became convinced that if she had been able to speak during the last fourteen days of her life, she would have brought it down to the 28th of July of the third year of the public life of our Lord, consequently to where she had taken it up in 1820.4 Her condition daily became more frightful.

She, who usually suffered in silence, uttered stifled groans, so awful was the anguish she endured.

On the 15th of January she said: 'The Child Jesus brought me great sufferings at Christmas.

I was once more by his manger at Bethlehem.

He was burning with fever, and showed me his sufferings and those of his mother.