I say I will do it and Christa will do it; and you can teach us all you've a mind to, day in and day out, and we'll learn if we can.
Isn't it far better to save Christa and me--two souls, than to hunt one poor man to death?
Don't you believe that I'll do what I promise?
I'll go right home now and give it to you in writing, if you like." "I do believe you, Ann." He stopped to regain the steadiness of his voice.

He had had training in forcing his voice in the last few months, for he hated to bear verbal testimony to his religious beliefs, and yet he had taught himself to do it.

He succeeded in speaking steadily now, in the same strong voice in which he had learnt to pray at meetings.

It was not exactly his natural voice.

It sounded sanctimonious and ostentatious, but that was because he was forced to conceal that his heart within him was quaking.