She replied: “Keep quiet, do not try to deceive me, my child is dead.” Every day, she went out along the road that her son had taken. By day, she took no food; by night, she never ceased crying, unable to sleep. When the fourteen days of festivities were over, during which Raguel had sworn that Tobiah should stay with him, Tobiah went to Raguel and said: “Let me return home because my parents will certainly be despairing that they will never see me again.”