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…showed last 75 words of 468 total…lost and almost confused for a moment. Perhaps she just comes for the satisfaction of knowing that she tried to help him, or perhaps she is seeking penance because she is partly responsible for him ingesting the lye. No one knows. Maybe if the boy had been introduced earlier, we, the readers, would have been able to guess if her journeys were because of a present-day illness or a way to redeem a guilty conscience.