It is utterly beyond all human strength; but by God's grace you will come through conqueror.' All this I said to him, Jeanette, and a good deal more; and then a strangely beautiful thing happened.

I can tell you, and of course I could tell Flower, but to no one else on earth would I repeat it.

The difficulty had been to obtain from him any response whatever.

He did not seem able to rouse sufficiently to notice anything going on around him.

But those words, 'by God's grace,' appeared to take hold of him and find immediate echo in his inner consciousness.