'No, Queen Esther. This is something beyond you and me.'
'How can one come to understand?'
Pitt was silent a minute, looking down at the words. 'I do not know,' he said. 'That is a question. It is a look of favour and love described here; but of course it would not give peace, unless the person receiving it knew he had it. How that can be, I do not see.'
Both were silent a little while.
'Well,' said Esther, 'you have given me a great deal of help.'
'How?'
'Oh, you have told me what this means,' said the child, hanging over the words, which Pitt still held.
'That does not give it to you.'
'No; but it is a great deal, to know what it means,' said Esther, in a tone which Pitt felt had a good element of hopefulness in it.
'What are you going to do about it?'