Luke's Wife by Evelyn R. Garratt

Rachel leant back in the railway carriage and watched the fields and / hedges rapidly passing. But her thoughts were far away. She was going / home, but not to the old familiar place she had hitherto called by that / name. It was to her new home, and the life that she was to spend there / was all untried.

She could not but remember the welcoming smile that her mother always / gave her even when she had returned only from a walk among the hills. / She knew that whatever new interest might come into her mother's life / that she would never cease to think first of her children. She had / always made everything subservient to their interests and welfare. / Before she became an invalid she had never allowed social or any other / claims to interfere with theirs, and since she had had to lead a / semi-invalid life their interests had still been hers, their joys and / sorrows were felt to be her own.