Then she turned suddenly.
"_Can't_ you understand, Ailsa ?" asked her sister-in-law wistfully.
"Celia--dearest," she stammered, "I simply can't understand.

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I thought the nation was greater than all----" "The State is greater, dear.

Good men will realise that when they see a sovereign people standing all alone for human truth and justice--standing with book and sword under God's favour, as sturdily as ever Israel stood in battle fo' the right!--I don't mean to be disloyal to my husband in saying this befo' my children.
But you ask me, and I must tell the truth if I answer at all." Slender, upright, transfigured with a flushed and girlish beauty wholly strange to them, she moved restlessly back and forth across the room, a slim, lovely, militant figure all aglow with inspiration, all aquiver with emotion too long and loyally suppressed.
Paige and Marye, astonished, watched her without a word.