Dedication

To Isabel Maria Teresa Frost

It is as if heaven had a special band of angels, whose office it was to sojourn for a season here, and endear to them the wayward human heart, that they might bear it upward with them in their homeward flight. When you see that deep, spiritual light in the eye… hope not to retain that child; for the seal of heaven is on it, and the light of immortality looks out from its eyes.

—Harriet Beecher Stowe