She gazed at him with unintelligent eyes, and her lips moved without speaking.

For one reared in constant contemplation of God's nearness to His children, acquainted with divine politics, divine literature and divine law, cut off from the world and devoted wholly to religion, the story of a divine tragedy carried with it the full force of its fearful import.

Philadelphus' narrative meant to her the crumbling of earth and the effacement of Heaven.

She cried wildly her unbelief when words returned to her.

But under the fury of her denunciation, unconsciously directed against the conviction that the story was true, she felt her hope of a restored Kingdom of David wavering toward a fall.
While she stood thus, Amaryllis, languid and pre-occupied, entered the room with John of Gischala at her side.