"They have broken your heart! They have killed you! There is no love in the world any more!" "No! No!" he cried suddenly.

"You must not say that! You make me doubt.
There is the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.

But, oh, for the Church! the Church which he loved and for which he gave himself!" "But it is not the Church of Christ that has done this thing." "Nevertheless it is the Church in the world," he replied.

"Tell me, Sarah, how this was kept so secret from me." "You forget.

You were so entirely absorbed in the care of Alfred; and then the church meeting was held with closed doors.