Now that I have a purpose, now that I am a new man, don't you see, Virginia, how impossible it is for me to say anything?
I owe my very conversion to Rachel's singing.

And yet that night while she sang I can honestly say that, for the time being, I never thought of her voice except as God's message.

I believe that all my personal love for her was for the time merged into a personal love to my God and my Saviour." Rollin was silent, then he went on with more emotion.

"I still love her, Virginia.

But I do not think she ever could love me." He stopped and looked his sister in the face with a sad smile.
"I don't know about that," said Virginia to herself.