"I'm sorry.

I'm always doin' the wrong thing, seems so.

But," he added, earnestly, "I don't want you to worry too much about your brother--er--Ruth.

It's goin' to come out all right, I know it.

God won't let it come out any other way." She had never heard him speak in just that way before and she looked at him in surprise.
"And yet God permits many things that seem entirely wrong to us humans," she said.
"I know.