“You must have better means of knowing the condition of ‘most people’ than I have. But no doubt a good many people are ‘all their lifetime subject to bondage’ on this account. One may be absolutely safe, without fully realizing one’s safety.”
“It is not only that,” said Dulcibel. “I think it is the feeling of the ‘must’ that is so dreadful—knowing that things must go on, and we all must grow older, and changes and death must come. That is the worst.”
“‘Thou inevitable day,’” George quoted in answer to this—
“‘Come thou must, and we must die:
Jesus, Saviour, stand thou by
When that last sleep seals our eye.’”
“Dulcie, you speak as if it were a going down into darkness, instead of going up into light. It will be out of night into day.”
“Not for all,” said Dulcibel.
“For all who are the Master’s own.”
“But still—”