We can speak her praise without fear, for she was put to the test in every way, and in every way found marvellously true.

For her devotion to, and encouragement of, her great husband in his great work, she would have won our high praise, even if, when he was stricken down and she was bereft of his wonderful love and buoyant spirits, she had proved forgetful of his work and the glory of his name.

But she was bereft, and she was then found most marvellously true.

Her devotion to Tone, while he was living and fighting, might be explained by the woman's passionate attachment to the man she loved.

It is the woman's tenderness that is most evident in these early years, but there is shining evidence of the fortitude that showed her true nobility in the darker after-years.