Nature, I do not pity Miss Kilman as much as I pity Septimus Smith.  She seems like a terrible woman!  Oh how negative and poisonous she was to the young mind of Elizabeth.  Elizabeth was right to pull away from her!  I would have done the same.  It seemed that all the woman desired to do was to tear Elizabeth from her family, and why would she want to do such a thing?  Elizabeth has a lovely family – her mother is very kind, gives much care to the household, and minds her family very well.  Miss Kilman ought to find a family of her own, that is what she ought to do.  No no, we should not focus our pity on her.  Even if she is unhappy with herself, a grown woman should know how to fix the problems she has and move on with her life rather than pull others into her reservoir of hatred and negativity.  But Septimus Smith, oh the poor boy!  Now he is one who deserves our pity.  I was moved to tears as I thought of his confusion and disappointment in the world.  To think he was helpless enough to kill himself!  My, what an awful way to live, the poor, poor boy.  What could ever make someone so miserable as to leave his mind, occupy another reality and refuse to live any longer?  I don’t believe this world is as bad as he thought it to be in his mind.  He still recognized some beauty that he had cherished in his early life, when he seemed to have a reasonable head on his shoulders.  He loved literature and learning, and in that way, I could not help to think of him as if he were one of my own sons.  His death should have been prevented.  His wife should’ve done more.

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