Softly he whispered, asking what she saw there.
And she said, in a voice strangely unlike her own: "I see the vision of a poor, weak soul striving after good.

It was not cut short, and in the end it learnt, through tears and much pain, that holiness is an infinite compassion for others; that greatness is to take the common things of life and walk truly among them; that"-- She moved her white hand and laid it on her forehead--"happiness is a great love and much serving.

It was not cut short; and it loved what it had learnt--it loved--and--" Was that all she saw in the corner?
Gregory told the landlady the next morning that she had been wandering all night.

Yet, when he came in to give her her breakfast, she was sitting up against the pillows, looking as he had not seen her look before.
"Put it close to me," she said, "and when I have had breakfast I am going to dress." She finished all he had brought her eagerly.
"I am sitting up quite by myself," she said.

"Give me his meat;" and she fed the dog herself, cutting his food small for him.