Therese expresses her appreciation for her school teachers, although school offered her hardly any real friendships, because she spent little time with any of the individual girls there. In the afternoons she would wait in the school chapel for her father to come for her, meditating on a phrase her father frequently shared with her, "The world is but a ship and not thy home."

She wanted to do good things for God at home, but wanted, too, to be noticed for them. She would do small things for her sister Celine, but cry if she didn't notice. Her scruples then made her cry again because she was crying. She began to pray to her four brothers and sisters in heaven -- because they had died in childbirth before knowing scruples -- to ask the Lord for heavenly help. Her prayers prompted felt an inner peace that filled Therese, and she knew she was loved. Her love for her sibling angels grew, and she longed to join them in heaven.