As they had been separated for a time from their friends
they had many things to tell each other.
"Do you know," said Henrik, as they were all sitting by the playing
fountain, "on our way here, we met Rachel!"
"Is she also risen?" asked Signe. "Oh, why did you not bring her with
you?"
"Well," said Henrik with a smile, "I told her where we were going and
asked her to come along. But she naturally preferred to stay with her
husband who was taking her to see some of his own people; so she
graciously declined, but said she would visit with us some other time."
"Right away?"
"I can't say. She clung pretty closely to her husband. They are a
splendid pair. I am glad, for I will admit that I once thought Rachel's
case was hopeless."
"We couldn't see very far, could we, brother?" remarked Rupert.
"Our faith was weak, and we did not trust the Lord enough."
"Yes; I used to wonder how the Lord would ever straighten out the mass
of entanglements that seemed to exist in the world.
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