And so you may lift up your face and take your name and place in this story--Molly Culpepper, heroine.
And when you lift your face, we may see something more than its pretty features: we shall see a radiant soul.

For scientists have found out that every material thing in this universe gives off atomic particles of itself, and some elements are more radiant than others.

And there is a paralleling quality in the spiritual world, and some souls give off more of their colour and substance than others, though what it is they radiate we do not know.

Even the scientists do not know the material things that the atoms radiate, so why should we be asked to define the essence of souls?
Yet from the soul of Molly Culpepper, in joy and in sorrow, in her moments of usefulness and in her deepest woe, her soul glowed and shed its glory, and she grew even as she gave her substance to the world about her.

For that is the magic of God's mystery of life.
And now having for the moment finished our discussion on the radio-activity of souls, let us go back to the story.
Mary Barclay rode home from her son's wedding that night with Bob Hendricks and Molly Culpepper.