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"Listen, darling," she said, and then, speaking in whispers, she told me
she had heard all I had said about the Convent, and wondered if I would
not like to live there always, becoming one of the good and holy nuns.
I must have made some kind of protest, for she went on to say how hard
the world was to a woman and how difficult she had found it.
"Not that your father has been to blame--you must never think that,
Mary, yet still . . ."
But tears from her tender heart were stealing down her face and she had
to stop.
Even yet I had not realised all that the solemn time foreboded, for I
said something about staying with my mother; and then in her sweet
voice, she told me nervously, breaking the news to me gently, that she
was going to leave me, that she was going to heaven, but she would
think of me when she was there, and if God permitted she would watch
over me, or, if that might not be, she would ask our Lady to do so.
"So you see we shall never be parted, never really. We shall always be
together.


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