5/9 I could not help looking at The Pilot with intense anxiety. What would he answer? How long the silence seemed! Then, turning, looked into the eyes that searched his so steadily and answered simply: "Yes, Gwen, I am quite sure!" Then, with quick inspiration, he got her mother's Bible and said: "Now, Gwen, try to see it as I read." But, before he read, with the true artist's instinct he created the proper atmosphere. By a few vivid words he made us feel the pathetic loneliness of the Man of Sorrows in His last sad days. Then he read that masterpiece of all tragic picturing, the story of Gethsemane. |