Perhaps two years passed thus, with but little being seen of Miriam, but she was not forgotten at the throne of grace.
The teacher from Beirut having returned to her home, it was proposed to Miriam's father that she should teach in the Protestant school.

Quite unexpectedly he consented, with the understanding that she was to spend every evening at home.

At first, little was said to her on the subject of religion; soon she sought religious conversation herself, and brought questions and different passages of Scripture to be explained.

After about a month, having previously conversed with the missionary about her duty, when her father came for her at night, she told him that she did not want to go home with him, but to stay where she was.

She ought to obey God rather than her parents.