How it is I cannot tell; but my husband seems to have my father completely under his influence.' "'Your mother ?' I suggested.
"'Can only weep with me.

I have no adviser, and my heart beats so wildly all the time, that thought confuses itself whenever it makes an effort to see the right direction.

Fear of a public trial suggests passive endurance of wrong on my part; but an innate sense of justice cries out against this course, and urges me to resistance.' "'If you are innocent,' said I, firmly, 'in the name and strength of innocence defend yourself! All that a woman holds dearest is at stake.
If they drive you to this great extremity, do not shrink from the trial.' "'But what hope have I in such a trial if false witnesses come up against me ?' "'God and justice are stronger than all the powers of evil,' said I.
"'They might be, in your case,' she answered, mournfully; 'for you have made God your friend, and justice your strong tower.

But I--what have I to hope for in God?
He has not been in all my thoughts; and now will He not mock at my calamity ?' "'No--no, my unhappy friend!' I answered.

'He never turns from any; it is we who turn from Him.