"Oh, this is a great improvement!" cried Belle. "Thank you, ever so much."
"What a mercy that you had it taken so recently!" said Mrs. Grey.
"Yes; there has been nothing but goodness and mercy from beginning to end."
Poor Margaret could not see it, and her face showed that she could not.
"Things that look like unmitigated evils now will appear differently as you advance into life. You are only on the outskirts now," said Mrs. Grey, kindly. "Belle, my dear, let Margaret read your Mabel-journal."
Belle rose and brought the book. It had been kept from the day of the child's birth till that of her death.
Margaret took it to her room and read it eagerly, and amid a rain of tears. Even she had not realized what a lovely character the little one possessed, and every little detail interested her.
"This book ought to be published!" she said, as she returned it.
"It would not touch the public as it does you," replied Belle.