Its recurrence after she had resolved to regard it as an impossible and blasphemous tale brought a chill to her heart.
"If I can prove to you that there is no hope for Jerusalem, what then ?" he asked suddenly.
She flung off the question with a gesture.
"Answer me.

What then ?" "It is unimaginable what shall come to pass when God deserts His own." "No need for imaginings.

Look at Jerusalem and observe the fact.

And if we be abandoned, what fealty do we owe to a God that deserts us?
If you believe or not you are lost.

Let us go out and live." "If God has deserted us," she said scornfully, "how shall we be happier elsewhere than here ?" "Every god to its own country.