Give the young man a seat, Esther." The girl took an ottoman near by, and carried it to Ben-Hur.

As she arose from placing the seat, their eyes met.
"The peace of our Lord with you," she said, modestly.

"Be seated and at rest." When she resumed her place by the chair, she had not divined his purpose.

The powers of woman go not so far: if the matter is of finer feeling, such as pity, mercy, sympathy, that she detects; and therein is a difference between her and man which will endure as long as she remains, by nature, alive to such feelings.

She was simply sure he brought some wound of life for healing.
Ben-Hur did not take the offered seat, but said, deferentially, "I pray the good master Simonides that he will not hold me an intruder.