 and they became friends during the time she cared for him. They greeted each other and joined the line of hundreds that wound around the East Room, waiting to shake hands with Lincoln, who had Mary beside him. From where he stood, Lincoln saw Gosper. He broke away from his place and came striding from the other side of the Big East Room to greet him. He took Gosper's hand, and what Ada remembered as, and I quote, a voice unforgettable, said,