The coming to Naomi of the gift of speech had seemed to banish from his mind the dark spirit of the past.
He had no heart for reprisals upon the enemies who had sought to kill him.

Without that blind effort on their part, perhaps his great blessing had not come to pass.

Man's extremity had indeed been God's opportunity and Ruth's vision was all but realised.
Ah, Ruth! Ruth! It had escaped Israel's notice until then that he had been thinking of his dead wife the whole night through.

When he put it to himself so, he saw the reason of it at once.

It was because there was a sort of secret charm in the certainty that where she was she must surely know that her dream was come true.