"True, true, you have," she answered. "Is that the reason that Christ suffered with us—that we might know He sympathized with us?"
"Yes."
"How unspeakably comforting is such sympathy, both human and divine!
Tell me about your mother."
"I fear I cannot without being unmanned. She was one of Heaven's favorites, and I owe everything to her. I can tell you one thing, though, she prayed for you continually—even with her dying lips, when my faith had broken down."
This touched Christine very deeply. At last she said, "I shall see her some day."
"I wish you had seen her," he continued very sadly, looking as if at a scene far away.
"You cannot wish it more than I. Indeed I would have called on her, had it not been for an unfortunate accident."
He looked at her with some surprise, as if not understanding her remark, but said, "She greatly wished to see you before she died."
"Oh, I wish I had known it!"
"Did you not know it?" he asked, in a startled manner.