Why, I didn't pray in vain after all! I thought when I asked the Lord to hide me, there in that big hall, that He wasn't doing it, because I wasn't covered from sight that instant.

But I'm hidden now, I feel that." Elnora lifted her eyes to the beams above her.

"I don't know much about praying properly," she muttered, "but I do thank you, Lord, for hiding me in your own time and way." Her face was so bright that it shone with a white radiance.

Two big tears welled from her eyes, and rolled down her smiling cheeks.

"Oh, I do feel that you have hidden me," she breathed.