Is there no way that I can talk to you without the resentment of some one who flourishes a better right to be with you than I can show ?" "Where hast thou been," Laodice asked, "so long ?" "Was it long," he demanded impulsively, "to you ?" "New places, new faces, uncertainty and other things make time seem long," she explained hastily.
"Nay, then," he said, "I have been busy.

I have been attending to that labor I had in mind for Judea, of which we spoke in the hills that morning." Laodice drew in a quick breath.

Then some one, if not herself or the husband who had denied her, was at work for Judea.
"There is no nation, here, for a king," he went on.

"It is a great horde that needs organization.

It wants a leader.