She felt that somehow she would hear her mother answer her.
Instead there was only silence.
Despairingly she looked at the altar, which was massed with white flowers.
Quite unexpectedly she heard the organ begin to be played very softly.
She had no idea that there was anybody else in the Chapel.
Yet now the music seemed to come like a message, not from the organ but from Heaven.
She felt her whole being respond to it, as if her mother was telling her not to be afraid.
She went on praying and now it was more like conversation as she told her mother how frightened she was.
Then, just as when she was a small child, her mother seemed to be holding her close and she was telling her that whatever happened she was never alone.
Because she was so deep in her thoughts Josina was not certai
