They are stubborn people, and won't die." "Yes," said Clara.
"And she won't die.

She can't.

Mr.Renshaw, the parson, was in the other day.

'Think!' he said to her; 'you will have your mother and father, and your sisters, and your son, in the Other Land.' And she said: 'I have done without them for a long time, and CAN do without them now.

It is the living I want, not the dead.' She wants to live even now." "Oh, how horrible!" said Clara, too frightened to speak.
"And she looks at me, and she wants to stay with me," he went on monotonously.