With characteristic practical sense, she did what she could to make herself and those within her reach secure, and then with characteristic faith she composed her mind to death if it should come, and even ventured with timid courage to exhort Katy and Miss Minorkey to put their trust in Christ, who could forgive their sins, and care for them living or dying.

Even the most skeptical of us respect a settled belief in a time of trial.

There was much broken praying from others, simply the cry of terror-stricken spirits.

In all ages men have cried in their extremity to the Unseen Power, and the drowning passengers in Diamond Lake uttered the same old cry.

Westcott himself, in his first terror, prayed a little and swore a little by turns.
The result of self-possession in the case of Isa Marlay and Helen Minorkey was the same.