“That was what was important?” the Marchioness asked.
“It was important because we were a family,” Lorena explained. “Papa used to say to me that families were especially blessed because Jesus had chosen to have a father and mother and quite an ordinary home until He started to preach.”
“But supposing,” the Marchioness said, “there had been no love in your home?”
“It is impossible to imagine that,” Lorena answered, “because Mama loved Papa so deeply and they loved me.”
She paused for a moment and then carried on,
“Mama once said that it was the woman who makes a home and who gives it the love that encircles it with happiness.”
“Your mother loved your father, so it was easy for her,” the Marchioness murmured.
“Mama gave everybody love. The people in the village adored her and her fri
