Look! I am even now unfaithful to my charge because I love thee, friend, more, I fear, than the work of the Lord." They were left alone because Halsey in passing out had left the door of the sick room open to the eager neighbours.

Now reluctantly he went back to his task of guarding the patient, and Susannah, after assuring his anxious soul that she felt no ill effects whatever from the dire proximity, went home again across the dark frozen fields with her lantern.

She sat half the night watching and waiting.
It was in the darkest hour before the dawn that she heard Halsey's step and crept down through the black house to unlock the door for him.

When they had come again into the room she saw that he was greatly excited, filled with apparent calm of an exalted mood.
"We have beheld a most glorious victory, friend; and truly we have been shown signs and wonders, and a very great miracle has been wrought.

I wish thou couldst have seen with thine own eyes, and yet--" She thought that he had been going to say that her lack of faith had made it more expedient for her to be away, but that he had checked in himself even the thought that he was more worthy of privilege than she.
It seemed that Joseph Smith, having been preaching the evening before at a place some twenty miles away, had not been able to reach Knight's house until nearly two in the morning.
"He rode all night," said Halsey, "and lost not a moment in coming to the inner room; it was like him." "Yes," said Susannah, "it was like him; he is very kind." Halsey went on.