In her care, attentions and affections, she took almost the rank of a daughter.

She was trained to habits of industry, truth and studiousness, and although Mrs.S.had been but nine months in the country when she adopted her, she commenced praying with her in Arabic from the very first.
Dr.Eli Smith says, "In a word, the expectations Mrs.Smith had formed in taking her, were fully answered; and she was often heard to say, that she had every day been amply repaid for the pains bestowed upon her.

It will not be wondered at, that her affections became entwined very closely around so promising a pupil, and that the attachment assumed much of the character of parental kindness.

Mrs.Smith's sharpest trial, perhaps, at her departure from Beirut, arose from leaving her behind." After the departure of Mrs.Smith, her fellow-laborer, Miss Williams, afterwards Mrs.Hebard, took charge of Raheel, who remained with her five years.

She then lived successively with Mrs.Lanneau and Mrs.
Beadle, and lastly with Dr.and Mrs.De Forest.
When in the family of Dr.De Forest, she became engaged to be married to Mr.Butrus Bistany, a learned native of the Protestant Church, who was employed by the Mission as a teacher.