"There is none anywhere, except the limit put by the faith of the applicant. I have known a person starving to death, relieved for the time even from the pangs of bodily hunger by the food which Christ gave her. There is no condition of human extremity for which he is not sufficient."
"But," said Diana, still speaking with difficulty, "that is for some people."
"For some people—and for everybody else."
"But—he would not like to have anybody go to him just for such a reason."
"He will never ask why you came, if you come. He was in this world to relieve misery, and to save from it. 'Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out,' is his own word. He will help you if you will let him, Diana."
Diana's head pressed more heavily against Basil's arm; the temptation was to break out into wild weeping at this contact of sympathy, but she would not. Did her husband guess how much she was in want of help? That thought half frightened her. Presently she raised her head and sat up.
"Here is another verse," said her husband, "which tells of a part of my work. 'Go ye into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.'"
"I don't understand"—
"'The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king which made a marriage for his son,'—it means rather a wedding entertainment."
"How, Basil?"