You shall have a choice." They disappeared in the direction of her hall.
Laodice, stunned, amazed and shaken, stood still.

The stock of her troubles amounted to a sum of such magnitude that she could not grasp it clearly.

The entire structure which her life training and all her purposes, the hope of her house and her husband's, the future of Judea and the King to come, had constituted, had been attacked and threatened to crumble and be swept away in a few hours' time.
Out of the wreck she rescued one hope.

Momus would return from the west with proofs in a few days' time--only a few days!.