“I can't let you make a scene there. You may plague me as much as you like. But I can't have any disturbance at the wedding.”
“You ought to know me well enough not to fear my making a disturbance. I'm not in the habit of making disturbances.”
“Well, then, what do you want to go for?”
“Simply to be there.”
“But I thought—I thought my own going was to be prevented.”
“Oh, no, I never said that. You may be suffered to go. It is the performance of the wedding ceremony that will be prevented.”
“Oh, then you think the 'moment of my need' has been put off a little?”
“I don't know. I say, you may be permitted to continue straight up to the brink, but before the marriage is consummated, the Lord will interfere.”
“His confidence is weakening,” thought Elias, and held his tongue.
“Well?” questioned the rabbi.