I have found you fearless.

Answer me in sternest truth, no matter what the issue may be!" She stood there in the glamorous moonlight with a commanding dignity which seemed more than human.

In that mystic light her white shroud seemed diaphanous, and she appeared like a spirit of power.

What was I to say?
How could I admit to such a being that I had actually had at moments, if not a belief, a passing doubt?
It was a conviction with me that if I spoke wrongly I should lose her for ever.

I was in a desperate strait.