Why was she taken away from it ?" "Perhaps she was wanted in some other world, sir." John lifted a startled face to the speaker, and the man added with an air of happy triumph, as he walked away, "A far better world, sir." For a moment John rested his head on his hand, then he lifted his face and with level brows fronted the grief he must learn to bear.
Jane's sorrow was a far more severe and constant one.

Martha had been part of all her employments.

She could do nothing and go nowhere, but the act and the place were steeped in memories of the child.

All her work, all her way, all her thoughts, began and ended with Martha.

She fell into a dangerous condition of self-immolation.