She led him quietly to his chair by the parlor fire.
She gave him food and wine.

She listened patiently, but with a living sympathy, to his wrong.

She endorsed, with a clasp of his hand and a smile, his purpose.

And she said, almost cheerfully: "You have not given up all your arms, father.

When I first heard of the edict, I hid in my own room the rifle, the powder and the shot, which were in your study.