"Fowler, do you know Miss O'Malley of Tusa hErin?"
"Why poor lady?"
"Wouldn't you call any one poor lady who had just been widowed, then lost her two children? Poor lady, I wish I could say something to comfort her."
"You! Fowler! You couldn't say anything?"
"The wisdom of God, Shane, is sometimes very hard to see. Our physical eyes can only see a little horizon, and yet the whole world is behind it. Miss O'Malley is not a case for any of the ministers of God ... but for Himself ..."
"You exaggerate, Fowler. Surely you are wrong ... They say she is young and proud and beautiful."
"I don't know. I never noticed ... She may be young and proud and beautiful ... I only thought of the dark harassed thing—inside all the youth and pride and beauty ..."
§5
He met her for the first time at a neighboring fair ...