Why should she look back?
Rather would she act upon the sacred precept: "Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before"-- this, said the apostle Saint Paul, was the one thing to do.

Undoubtedly now it was the one and only thing for her to do; leaving all else which might have to be done, to her husband and to the Bishop.
"This one thing I do," she said aloud; "this one thing I do." And moving forward, in the strength of that resolve, she passed out into the sunshine.
"_Do it now!_" sang the thrush, in the rowan-tree..