sentences:  She tells the children to wake her up before nine, which they fail to do because they go to bed.The Grandfather realizes that The Pilgrim is the personification of death; he recognizes her from a near-death experience he had years before in the mine accident which killed all the children, total of seven, of the family servant, Telva.He pleads with her to leave his family alone, as they have suffered enough already because of her.