Was this the end?
Yet the girl, unconscious of the doom impending, kept her eyes steadfastly fixed on the book.
"For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
"They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone....
"He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble: I will deliver him and honour him." Iris did not apply the consoling words to herself.

She closed the book and bent forward sufficiently in her sheltering niche to permit her to gaze with wistful tenderness upon the man whom she hoped to see delivered and honored.

She knew he would dare all for her sake.

She could only pray and hope.

After reading those inspired verses she placed implicit trust in the promise made.