I am sorry that I have not lived in them. Their words are full of the living waters of those true tears with which You taught the Samaritan your mercy. (She did not weep with her eyes—or if she did the Gospel does not tell us: but her simplicity and frankness were her compunction. Her penance was above all a matter of admiration: “I have found a man who told me everything I have ever done. Can He be the Christ?”)
