But he still went to see her every Sunday when he was staying in town, and he still made the doctors go on trying new things.

He never gave up till the very last.

Mr.McGoldrick used to say of him that he was the sort that would go on hoping in hell." "Who was she?
Where did he meet her ?" "God only knows.

He never would say much about her even to Mr.
McGoldrick, but John always stuck it out that she was never the right sort in the beginning, and that Mr.O'Hara got tangled up with her somewhere in a mining town out West, and couldn't get out.

I've heard she was a chambermaid or a barmaid or something in a miners' hotel, but I don't know, and nobody else knows, for Mr.O'Hara never opened his mouth about her.