"What were they, dear Doctor?"
"From the eighth chapter of Romans, dear Madame," said the Doctor, consulting a little note book.
"Marianne," commanded her father, "fetch the Bible. Let us hear what words gave comfort to our Queen."
Marianne tripped across the room and returned in a moment with a Bible which she laid before her father.
All listening, he found the place and read aloud:
"The Spirit helpeth our infirmities, for we know not what we should pray for.
"We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or peril, or sword?
"Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Jesus Christ our Lord."
"Our good Angel," murmured Madame von Stork, wiping her eyes.