A retreat which would hide her from the world, and devote her to religion for the rest of her days, was the one end to her wasted life that she longed for.

That end was attained in a Priory of Benedictine Nuns, established in France.

There she found protection and peace--there she passed the remaining years of her life among devoted Sister-friends--and there she died a quiet and even a happy death.
"You will now understand how my mother's grateful remembrance associated her with the interests of more than one community of Nuns; and you will not need to be told what she had in mind when she obtained my father's promise at the time of her last illness.
"He at once proposed to bequeath the house as a free gift to the Benedictines.

My mother thanked him and refused.

She was thinking of me.
'If our son fails to inherit the house from his father,' she said, 'it is only right that he should have the value of the house in money.