"I trust, in God's own time, we shall see James back." "But what if we never should?
Oh, cousin! I can't help thinking of that.
There was Michael Davis,--you know--the ship was never heard from." "Well," said the mother, after a moment's pause and a choking down of some rising emotion, and turning to a table on which lay a Bible, she opened and read: "If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me." The THEE in this psalm was not to her a name, a shadow, a cipher, to designate the unknowable--it stood for the inseparable Heart-friend--the Father seeing in secret, on whose bosom all her tears of sorrow had been shed, the Comforter and Guide forever dwelling in her soul, and giving peace where the world gave only trouble.
Diana beheld her face as it had been the face of an angel.

She kissed her, and turned away in silence..