Beyond it stretched the Promised Land peopled with the lost who soon would be the found.
Barbara's last illness was rapid.

When she began to go she went swiftly.
"Can't you save her ?" asked her son of one of the doctors.
"The disease has gone too far," he answered.

"Moreover, it is impossible to save one who seeks to die." "Why does she seek to die ?" blurted Anthony, glaring at him.
"Perhaps, young gentleman, you are in a better position to answer that question than I am," replied the doctor, who knew of Anthony's cruel conduct to his mother and had reproached him with it, not once but on several occasions.
"You mean that I have killed her," said Anthony savagely.
"No," replied the doctor, "she is dying of tuberculosis of the lungs.
What were the primary causes which induced that disease I cannot be sure.

All I said was that she appears to welcome it, or rather its issue.

And I will add this on my own account, that when she does die the world will lose one of the sweetest women that ever walked upon it.