"I have failed at times, I fear, but I have tried.

That is all any man can do.

I pray that God in His mercy will soon send light to you, John, whatever of darkness there may be in store for me." I thought, "He will surely answer this just man's prayer," and almost before the thought was completed the dungeon door turned upon its hinges and a great light came with glorious refulgence through the open portal--Dorothy.
"John!" Never before did one word express so much of mingled joy and grief.

Fear and confidence, and, greater than all, love unutterable were blended in its eloquent tones.

She sprang to John as the lightning leaps from cloud to cloud, and he caught her to his heart.