But apparently Monkey Brand could not pray aloud.
"Say something to make the time pass," she whispered.
"The Lord is my Shepherd," said Monkey Brand brokenly, his mind throwing back thirty years; "I shall not want. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He——"
"I seem to hear steps," interrupted Cuckoo.
"He leadeth me beside the still waters. Yea, though I walk"—the voice broke down—"though I walk in the valley of the shadow of——"
"Some one is coming in now," said Cuckoo, in a faint, acute voice.
"It is Janet."
"I can't see her plainly. Tell her to come nearer."
He beckoned to Janet.