Her pain, her thwarted young life, I don't understand any more than I do other phases of evil, but I can give my allegiance to One who came to take away the evil of the world.

That's about all the religion I have, and you mustn't ever say a word against it.
"Well, there is but little more to tell.

Tilly spoke in quiet, broken sentences as her cough permitted, and I told her a little about myself and sang to her some hymns that mother sang to me when I was a child.
With the dawn her mother came in, and was frightened at having slept so long, but Tilly laughed and said it was just splendid.
"She was evidently a very intelligent girl, and must have been a pretty one, too.

She certainly has read a great deal, and has taught in public schools.

There didn't seem to be a trace of morbidness in her mind or feeling.