“If you desire to tell it, yes.”

“You seem so near and dear to me that I may tell it to you.  My boy, while on his mission, was tempted.  He has told me all about it—­he was tempted sorely.  He was in great danger, and so the Lord, to prevent him from falling into the mire of sin, permitted him to be taken away.  They brought his lifeless body home to me, but his spirit went back to its Maker pure and unspotted from the sins of the world,—­and thus I found him here, a big, fine-looking man as he was.  You ought to see him.”

“Mother,” someone called from the direction of the house.

“That is he now,” said the mother, rising.

“Mother, where are you?  Oh!” the son exclaimed as he caught sight of the two women.  He came up to them and rested his arm tenderly on his mother’s shoulder.  He was big and handsome, and Rachel’s eyes dropped before his curious gaze.

“David, this is Sister Rachel, whom I first met in earth-life in the temple.  I think I have told you about her and what a comfort she was to me.”

“I am very glad to know you,” said he, as he clasped Rachel’s hand.  Then there was a pause which promised to become awkward, at which David said: 

“Mother, I want to show you something in the back garden.  You know I have been experimenting with my roses.  I believe I have obtained some wonderful color effects.  You’ll come also?” he asked Rachel.

The three walked on together into the garden where David exhibited and explained his work.  When, at length, Rachel said it was time she was going, the mother urged her to come again.

“I’m going along with Sister Rachel to her home, and to find out where she lives,” explained David, as he stepped along, unbidden, by Rachel’s side.

And so these two walked side by side for the first time.  They talked freely on many topics, she listening contentedly.  They smiled into each other’s eyes, and at the end of that short journey, something had happened.  True love had awakened in two hearts.  Through all the shifting scenes of earth-life, nothing like this had ever come to this man and this woman.  Love had waited all this time.  The power that draws kindred souls together is not limited to the few years of earth-life.  While time lasts, God will provide sometime, somewhere, in which to give opportunity for every deserving soul.  Here were two whose hearts beat as one; but one must needs have left mortality early in his course, while the other went on to the end alone.  The reason for this was difficult to see by mortal eyes, but now—­

“I’m coming again to see you,” said David, as he prepared to depart.  “I have so much to tell you; and you,—­you have said very little.  I must hear your story too.”

“I have no story,” said she.  “My earth-life was very uneventful.  I just seemed to be waiting—­”

“Yes?”

But Rachel was confused.  Her simple heart had spoken, and true to earthly habit, she now tried to cover up her tell-tale words; but he saw and understood, and as they stood there, his heart burned with a great joy.