Fray Ignatius did not leave the Mission comforts; and Rachela could not bear to go prowling about the corridors and passages.

She established herself in the Senora's room, and remained there.

And very early in the evening she said "she had an outrageous headache," and went to her room.
Then Antonia and Isabel sat awhile by their mother's bed.

They talked in whispers of their father and brothers, and when the Senora cried, they kissed her sobs into silence and wiped her tears away.

In that hour, if Fray Ignatius had known it, they undid, in a great measure, the work to which he had given more than a month of patient and deeply-reflective labor.