to such a degree? It is because no one knows about it. . . .
"Blessed Margaret Mary having had two whitlows used to say she had only really suffered from the first one, because it had not been possible for her to hide the second from her Sisters, and thus it became the object of their compassion.
"This feeling is natural to us; yet to wish that all should know when we suffer is a very commonplace manner of acting."
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
During the first months of her
illness it was on her hard palliasse that
Sister Thérèse passed the time of rest,
and her nights were very bad: when
asked whether she did not need some
assistance during those hours of pain,
she replied: "Oh, no on the contrary, I
think myself very fortunate to be in a
cell distant enough for my Sisters not to
hear me. I rejoice to suffer alone; but
from the moment I am pitied and sur-
