Whereat, she with anxious look, checking him with her eyes, for that
he still savoured such things, and then looking upon me: "Behold,"
saith she, "what he saith": and soon after to us both, "Lay," she
saith, "this body any where; let not the care for that any way
disquiet you: this only I request, that you would remember me at the
Lord's altar, wherever you be." And having delivered this sentiment in
what words she could, she held her peace, being exercised by her
growing sickness.
But I, considering Thy gifts, Thou unseen God, which Thou instillest
into the hearts of Thy faithful ones, whence wondrous fruits do
spring, did rejoice and give thanks to Thee, recalling what I before
knew, how careful and anxious she had ever been as to her place of
burial, which she had provided and prepared for herself by the body of
her husband. For because they had lived in great harmony together, she
also wished (so little can the human mind embrace things divine) to
have this addition to that happiness, and to have it remembered
among men, that after her pilgrimage beyond the seas, what was earthly
of this united pair had been permitted to be united beneath the same
earth.
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