She would not hear.

"Let us rise up and part; she will not know.

Let us go seaward as the great winds go,

Full of blown sand and foam; what help is there?

There is no help, for all these things are so,

And all the world is bitter as a tear.

And how these things are, though ye strove to show

She would not know.

"Let us go home and hence; she will not weep——"

"Stop a moment," said Naomi, "I'm in a difficulty. I can't go on listening until I know something."