Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
"But he answered and said, Verily, I say unto you, I know you not.
"Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh." After reading these verses in a loud voice, my father closed the Bible; in the room where we were assembled there was a sound of chairs being moved and we all went down upon our knees to pray.

Following the usage in old Huguenot families, it was our custom to have prayers just before retiring to our rooms for the night.
"And the door was shut.

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." Although I still knelt I no longer heard the prayer, for the foolish virgins appeared to me.