To train and equip you for your work, and to enable you, unhampered by need, to gain your footing, was the determined passion of her life.

Her sacrifice, her suffering to that end, was the only restitution she could make to you for that which your father had squandered.

Her proud spirit, her fine intelligence, her mother love for you, demanded it." "I know," returned the artist.

"She told me before she died.

She made me understand.