And yet--here and there about the world people lived and had their being to whom this question of God was a vital question; people like Bunning and his crowd--mad, the whole lot of them.

Nevertheless there was something there that had great power.

That had, until to-day, been Olva's attitude, an amused superior curiosity.
Now it was a larger question.

There had been that moment after Carfax had fallen, a moment of intense silence, and in that moment something had spoken to Olva.

It is a fact as sure as concrete, as though he himself could remember words and gesture.