Angels and Women (1924)

GREATER CHANGE 165ceive that which cannot be apprehended byoutward sense. By this I am warned to takeno part in these scenes. Forgive me if I butobserve thee at a distance; my heart is withthee even unto the end.""My child," she said, "thy words fill mewith alarm l They are the clear echo of adull voice within me, a reproof, a menace;my conscience is troubled, but reason isclouded. I am driven forward by an irresistiblepower, tangled in a net from which Icannot extricate myself. I fear yon haughtylord, yet I must obey his will. O that Allimadesstill lived 1" At this, the only allusionto my father she had ever made, we wereboth greatly agitated. I restrained myselfwith difficulty, and soothed her, saying--"The evil is irreparable: the diet of thePalace, its baths and perfumes, I have takennone of them, and can perceive dearly thatthe future will execute the decrees of theMost High. Let us hold fast the thread offaith t Allimades placed in our hands, and i