He began to be sorry and heavy greatly, both he and Anna his wife with him, and began both to weep because at the day set he came not home.  His mother therefore wept with unmeasurable tears, and said:  Alas, my son, wherefore sent we thee to go this pilgrimage?  The light of our eyes, the staff of our age, the solace of our life, the hope of our posterity, all these only having in thee, we ought not to have let thee go from us.  To whom Tobit said:  Be still and trouble thee not, our son is safe enough, the man is true and faithful enough with whom we sent him.  She might in no wise be comforted, but every day she went and looked and espied the way that he should come if she might see him come from far.  Then Raguel said to Tobias his son-in-law:  Abide here with me, and I shall send messengers of thy health and welfare to Tobit thy father.  To whom Tobias said:  I know well that my father and my mother accompt the days, and the spirit is in great pain within them.  Raguel prayed him with many words, but Tobias would in no wise grant him.  Then he delivered to him Sara his daughter, and half part of all his substance in servants, men and women, in beasts, camels, in kine and much money.  And safe and joyful he let him depart from him, saying:  The angel of God that is holy be in your journey, and bring you home whole and sound, and that ye may find all things well and rightful about your father and mother, and that mine eyes may see your sons ere I die.  And the father and mother taking their daughter kissed her and let her depart, warning her to worship her husband’s father and mother, love her husband, to rule well the meiny [retinue], to govern the house and to keep herself irreprehensible, that is to say, without reproof.

When they thus returned and departed, they came to Charram, which is the half way to Nineveh, the thirteenth day.  Then said the angel to Tobias:  Tobias, brother, thou knowest how thou hast left thy father, if it please thee we will go tofore and let thy family come softly after, with thy wife and with thy beasts.  This pleased well to Tobias; and then said Raphael to Tobias:  Take with thee of the gall of the fish, it shall be necessary.  Tobias took of the gall and went forth tofore.  Anna his mother sat every day by the way in the top of the hill, from whence she might see him come from far, and whilst she sat there and looked after his coming, she saw afar and knew her son coming, and running home she told to her husband saying:  Lo! thy son cometh.  Raphael then said to young Tobias:  Anon as thou enterest in to the house adore thy Lord God, and giving to him thankings, go to thy father and kiss him.  And anon then anoint his eyes with the gall of the fish that thou bearest with thee, thou shalt well know that his eyes shall be opened, and thy father shall see the light of heaven and shall joy in thy sight.  Then ran the dog that followed him and had been with him in the way, and came home as a messenger,