Absolute faith had been her serenity.

Though leaving her faith unshaken, her serenity had been disturbed, and now it was broken by open war between her and her ministers.

That something within her--a whisper--which she had tried in vain to hush had become a ringing voice, and it called to her to wait.

She had transgressed no laws of God.

Her churchmen, however invested with the power and the glory of a wonderful creed, however they sat in inexorable judgment of her, must now practice toward her the simple, common, Christian virtue they professed to preach, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you!" Jane Withersteen, waiting in darkness of mind, remained faithful still.
But it was darkness that must soon be pierced by light.