It is better not to expect or calculate consequences. The longer I live,
the more fully I see that. Let us try simply to do right actions, without
thinking of the feelings they are to call out in others. We know that no
holy or self-denying effort can fall to the ground vain and useless; but
the sweep of eternity is large, and God alone knows when the effect is to
be produced. We are trying to do right now, and to feel right; don’t let
us perplex ourselves with endeavouring to map out how she should feel, or
how she should show her feelings.