‘Now to me, were I in your darling’s position, there would be comfort and pleasure in the idea--“Perhaps, as regards me, leaving the body will _not_ be real separation from dear ones. Perhaps I may be allowed to come to them, and minister to them, and cheer them; though they cannot see me I may see them!” This idea does not appear opposed to Scripture. The rich man in the parable believed that Lazarus _could_ go to Earth; and Abraham never said that he could _not_. If dear Otho thought that he might possibly be permitted to watch over his Mother, and help to make her happy, and be one of the first to welcome her to bliss,--perhaps the real bitterness of death would for him seem taken away. It seems quite possible that dear Robin was by his child’s sick-bed, and that she _saw_ him, when her face so lighted up with joy. “I believe in the Communion of Saints.”