She entered into all his pursuits; she took an interest in all his friends and companions; she had always leisure for sympathy and counsel in his difficulties and troubles.

She had a little room of her own to which she used to get him to come every evening and talk over the day with her, so that she might keep herself heart to heart with him in all that concerned him.

She even overcame her girlish reserve, and would get him to kneel down by her side and pour out her sweet girlish heart in prayer that God would guide him in all his ways, and keep him unspotted from the world.

Years after, when he was a married man, with boys of his own, he said to her: "You little know all that you were to me as a young man.

My temptations were so maddening that I used sometimes to think that I must yield to them and do as other young men did all round me.