FOOTNOTE:
[3] See the [Appendix].
Chapter XIII WHAT PASTOR STEPANIAN THOUGHT
"But he was holy, calm, and high,
As one who saw an ecstasy
Beyond a foreknown agony."
—E. B. Browning.
John Grayson left his young bride, for the present, in the care of Miss Celandine. "She is safe; she is absolutely safe!" he kept saying to himself, that one thought swallowing up all the rest. He went constantly to see her, and was relieved to find that she very soon recovered from the effects of her sprain, which indeed was not serious. Meanwhile he stayed with the Vartonians, and watched anxiously for the coming of the Meneshians to Urfa. Until he saw them settled there, and in some measure safe, he did not think he ought to apply for a passport for himself and Shushan, or, as she would then be called, Lily Grayson.