Why broken?
The words I would have uttered at one time were like drops of blood from my heart.

Now I sympathise with the calmness you have gained, and can speak of your loss as I do of my own.

Loss and restoration are more and more linked in my mind, but "to the present live." As long as they are in God's world they are in ours.

I ask no other consolation.
'Mrs.W---'s recovery has astonished me, and her husband's prospects give me great satisfaction.

They have achieved a benefit to their coloured people.