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"
No
,
Meggie
,
Hal
's
not
better
in
the
way
you
mean
,
but
he
's
at
peace
.
He
's
gone
to
God
,
he
's
out
of
his
pain
.
"
"
Daddy
means
he
's
dead
,
"
said
Fee
tonelessly
.
"
Oh
,
Daddy
,
no
!
He
ca
n't
be
dead
!
"
But
the
small
creature
in
the
pillowed
nest
was
dead
.
Meggie
knew
it
the
moment
she
looked
,
though
she
had
never
seen
death
before
.
He
looked
like
a
doll
,
not
a
child
.
She
got
up
and
went
out
to
the
boys
,
sitting
hunched
in
an
uneasy
vigil
around
the
kitchen
fire
,
with
Mrs.
Smith
on
a
hard
chair
nearby
keeping
an
eye
on
the
tiny
twins
,
whose
cot
had
been
moved
into
the
kitchen
for
warmth
.
"
Hal
just
died
,
"
said
Meggie
.
Stuart
looked
up
from
a
distant
reverie
.
"
It
's
better
so
,
"
he
said
.
"
Think
of
the
peace
.
"
He
got
to
his
feet
as
Fee
came
out
of
the
hallway
,
and
went
to
her
without
touching
her
.
"
Mum
,
you
must
be
tired
.
Come
and
lie
down
;
I
'll
light
a
fire
for
you
in
your
room
.
Come
on
now
,
lie
down
.
"
Fee
turned
and
followed
him
without
a
word
.
Bob
got
up
and
went
out
onto
the
veranda
.
The
rest
of
the
boys
sat
shuffling
for
a
while
and
then
joined
him
.
Paddy
had
n't
appeared
at
all
.
Without
a
word
Mrs.
Smith
took
the
perambulator
from
its
corner
of
the
veranda
and
carefully
put
the
sleeping
Jims
and
Patsy
into
it
.
She
looked
across
at
Meggie
,
tears
running
down
her
face
.
"
Meggie
,
I
'm
going
back
to
the
big
house
,
and
I
'm
taking
Jims
and
Patsy
with
me
.
I
'll
be
back
in
the
morning
,
but
it
's
best
if
the
babies
stay
with
Minnie
and
Cat
and
me
for
a
while
.
Tell
your
mother
.
"
Meggie
sat
down
on
a
vacant
chair
and
folded
her
hands
in
her
lap
.
Oh
,
he
was
hers
and
he
was
dead
!
Little
Hal
,
whom
she
had
cared
for
and
loved
and
mothered
.
The
space
in
her
mind
he
had
occupied
was
not
yet
empty
;
she
could
still
feel
the
warm
weight
of
him
against
her
chest
.
It
was
terrible
to
know
the
weight
would
never
rest
there
again
,
where
she
had
felt
it
for
four
long
years
.
No
,
not
a
thing
to
cry
over
;
tears
were
for
Agnes
,
for
wounds
in
the
fragile
sheath
of
self-esteem
,
and
the
childhood
she
had
left
behind
forever
.
This
was
a
burden
she
would
have
to
carry
until
the
end
of
her
days
,
and
continue
in
spite
of
it
.
The
will
to
survive
is
very
strong
in
some
,
not
so
strong
in
others
.
In
Meggie
it
was
as
refined
and
tensile
as
a
steel
hawser
.
Just
so
did
Father
Ralph
find
her
when
he
came
in
with
the
doctor
.
She
pointed
silently
to
the
hallway
but
made
no
effort
to
follow
them
.
And
it
was
a
long
time
before
the
priest
could
finally
do
what
he
had
wanted
to
do
since
Mary
Carson
phoned
the
presbytery
;
go
to
Meggie
,
be
with
her
,
give
the
poor
little
female
outsider
something
from
himself
for
her
very
own
.
He
doubted
that
anyone
else
fully
appreciated
what
Hal
meant
to
her
.
