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Helen only answered : `` Do as I ask you , dear friend , and blessings will be upon you . '' She gave orders herself for the body of her husband to be placed in its shroud at six the next morning . Benedict obeyed her in everything . He spent his whole evening over these funeral preparations and did not return to the house until eleven o'clock . He found Helen 's room transformed , a double row of candles burning around the bed . Helen was sitting on the bed and looking at Karl . Even as she no longer wept she now no longer prayed .