Ella Johannessen was overwhelmed by financial difficulties when a stranger learned of her troubles and decided to leave a little gift for the 23-year-old student while she was asleep.

Johannessen was on a train from London King's Cross Station to Leeds on Saturday morning when she called her mother and started venting about her money problems.

As a Leeds Beckett University graduate, she reportedly fell into debt during her final year in college when she had to drop her part-time job and focus on her studies.

"I was rather stressed and upset over my financial situation and was trying to locate what had happened to £35 that had been sent to me over a bank transfer," Johannessen wrote on Facebook. "I spoke to her about how little money I had, how worried I was about my finances and I got upset."

After hanging up the phone, the 23-year-old fell asleep in her seat. When she awoke a half hour later, however, she found that someone had left her £100 ($141) tucked into a napkin on her lap.

"I started to cry," said the student. "After a terrible 18 months where I lost my father and both of his parents, it showed me that there is kindness and good people in the world."

According to the BBC, the money will keep Johannessen's bank account from being over drafted. She hopes that her thank you note to the compassionate stranger will reach them on Facebook, and she plans on paying the good deed forward by volunteering for a charity in Leeds.

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