"I think He is pleased that I don't try to cheat Him." Somehow Tommy felt uncomfortable at that.
"There are people," he said vaguely, like one who thought it best to mention no names, who would be afraid to challenge God in that way." "He would not be worth believing in," she answered, "if He could be revengeful.

He is too strong, and too loving, and too pitiful for that." But she took hold of Tommy as if to protect him.

Had they been in physical danger, her first impulse would have been to get in front of him to protect him.

The noblest women probably always love in this way, and yet it is those who would hide behind them that men seem to love the best.
"I always feel--oh, I never can help feeling," she said, "that nothing could happen to you, that God Himself could not take you from me, while I had hold of you." "Grizel!" "I mean only that He could not have the heart," she said hastily.
"No, I don't," she had to add.

"I meant what you thought I meant.