John William Godward Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder painting

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Sarpanch Muhammad Din, saw an archangel in a dream. "Gibreel," she whispered, "is it you?"
"No," the apparition replied. "It's I, Azraeel, the one with the lousy job. Excuse the disappointment."
The next morning she continued with the pilgrimage, saying nothing to her husband about her vision. After two hours they neared the ruin of one of the Mughal milepost inns that had, in times long gone, been built at five--mile intervals along the highway. When Khadija saw the ruin she knew nothing of its past, of the wayfarers robbed in their sleep and so on, but she understood its present well enough. "I have to go in there and lie down," she said to the Sarpanch, who protested: "But, the march!" "Never mind that," she said gently. "You can catch them up later."
She lay down in the rubble of the old ruin with her head on a smooth stone which the Sarpanch found for her. The old man wept, but that didn't do