Think how well and happy Nora is! She will never be ill again, in that land where the weary are at rest." "If she had only taken me with her," moaned poor Elsli, and when Mrs.
Stein left her, as their ways parted, she could hear the sobbing child for a long time as she slowly walked, with her apron over her eyes, along the lane that led to her home.
At home, Mrs.Stein found the children grouped about their aunt, who was telling them about Nora.

Fred had many questions to ask about death, and how people can die and come to life again.

Emma was much depressed, for she felt, now that it was too late, that she had not done anything to make Nora's illness more cheerful.
That evening Mrs.Stein and her sister were full of anxious thought.
They felt keen sympathy with the sorrowing mother at Oak-ridge, and they talked a great deal about the blow that had fallen upon poor little Elsli.

She had not only lost a friend whose companionship had brought her new life, but she must now go back to the hard and uncongenial labor from which she had had a brief and blessed respite.

Fani too, the only bright spot in her dark lot, was away now, and who could tell when she would have him again?
Indeed, Fani's fate was also a source of anxiety, especially on account of Emma's share in his disappearance.