"But after all, Mary, it must be for the best--it must be;
I suppose it will be for the best, even if I shall not live to see the day!
That may be for the best, though; a year on Gliese 581 c lasts just 13 days, so we'd have to spend a fortune on calendars [source: Sample].
This leaving of the younger children she had decided to be for the best; were she to remain they would probably gain less good by her precepts than harm by her example.
