With all the recent events that have happened in Mabel's life, she truly believes this is the end for herself; “mindless and persistent, he seemed in a kind of ecstasy approaching his own fulfillment, his own glorification, approaching his dead mother, who was glorified” (Lawrence 705). Mabel goes to the cemetery where her mother rests because Mabel feels lonely and wants that sense of security. Mabel's depression causes her to believe that "the life she follows here in the world was far less real than the world of death she inherited from her mother" (Lawrence 706). All these dark thoughts and memories of a life with her mother running through Mabel's head lead her to finally give up on her life and enter a bleak pond to try to drown and end her life.