Salted with Fire

After that talk with her father about the child and his mother, a certain silent change appeared in Maggie. People saw in her face an expression which they took to resemble that of one whose child was ill, and was expected to die. But what Maggie felt was only resignation to the will of her Lord: the child was not hers but the Lord’s, lent to her for a season! She must walk softly, doing everything for him as under the eye of the Master, who might at any moment call to her, Bring the child: I want him now! And she soon became as cheerful as before, but never after quite lost the still, solemn look as of one in the eternal spaces, who saw beyond this world’s horizon.