Tignonville ?" She nodded.
"He is below." "Ah!" she said.
They expected to see her break down, perhaps to see her fall.

But she only groped blindly for a chair and sat.

And for a moment there was silence in the room.

It was the Huguenot minister who broke it in a tone formal and solemn.
"Listen, all present!" he said slowly.

"The ways of God are past finding out.