God has given to you this task--such a noble task!--and through your friendship, I too seemed to have a little part in it, if only by sympathy.

Oh, no! you mustn't turn back--you mustn't shrink--because of what has happened to you.

And let me, from a distance, watch and help.

It will ennoble my life, too.

Let me!"-- she smiled--"I shall make a good friend, you'll see.