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 notorious lady—"I can't tell you how she's helped me. She's so brave, nobody seems too bad for her. She never despises you. And I've another friend who is a spiritualist."

"Error!"

"She told me all about myself; she was so wonderful, her eyes went through and through. She said, 'You're going the wrong way,' and then it all came to me. She helped me so. And another who was a missionary's wife"

This seemed simpler, but he wondered what he could get at behind it all.

"She didn't live with him. She had met him first at a revivalist meeting; she said he was too wonderful, but he couldn't have been as wonderful as her. She used to come and see me in the mornings, when I was in bed; I was very lonely then, a dear friend and I had just parted. She never talked religion, but there was something wonderful about her face."

"And all this has really helped you? Force of example"

"I don't want to copy them: I only want to know they're there."