How long I lay with my arms about my mother, and my mother's arms about me I do not know. I only know that over my head I heard Father Dan saying, as if speaking to a child:
"You are happy now, are you not?"
"Yes, yes, I am happy now," my mother answered.
"You have everything you want?"
"Everything—everything!"
Then came my father's voice, saying:
"Well, you've got your girl, Isabel. You wanted her, so we sent for her, and here she is."
"You have been very good to me, Daniel," said my mother, who was kissing my forehead and crying in her joy.
When I raised my head I found Father Dan in great excitement.
"Did you see that then?" he was saying to Doctor Conrad.