"On our Blessed Lady."
"I should like to be there. The children tell me he preaches lovely. They think he sees the Blessed Virgin when he is talking of her. I shouldn't be surprised."
"I think he'll have crosses, too, like you, my dear. No, no, I don't mean illness; but crosses of his own."
"I should be sorry," she said, her eyes filling with tears.
"Of course, you want heaven all to yourself. Aren't you a selfish saint?"
"I'm not a saint at all, Daddy Dan; but Father Letheby is, and why should he be punished?"
"Why, indeed? Except to verify that line of Dante's of the soul in Paradise:
"'E dal martirio venni a questa pace.'"