He was used to his mother's reserve.

And on such occasions he was thankful in his heart and soul that he had his mother, so sane and wholesome.
All the life of Miriam's body was in her eyes, which were usually dark as a dark church, but could flame with light like a conflagration.

Her face scarcely ever altered from its look of brooding.

She might have been one of the women who went with Mary when Jesus was dead.

Her body was not flexible and living.