How is he? Oh, how guilty I feel toward him! Ought one to fear what the world may say in a case like this? I ought to have left everything to go after him, to bring him up and to show my love for him. I should certainly have been much happier, but I did not dare, I was a coward. How I have suffered! Oh, how those poor, abandoned children must hate their mothers!" She stopped suddenly, for she was choked by her sobs.
Pinatibay ko ang aking loob at sinabi ko sarili, “Kaya ko ‘to!” Nagbitiw ako ng mga salita, isang dasal na naman, “Diyos ko, na makapangyarihan sa lahat, nawa’y tulungan niyo po ako sa aking kalagayan, sana po maging matatag ako, matatahimik na siya.