"Tell me out of thy wisdom!" "What is it ?" he asked, feeling that there was more than sympathy for the defeated man in her heart.
"What would thy Christ have me to do ?" she insisted.

"This stranger, here, is the joy of my heart; I am like to die if I can not give him the love that I feel for him this hour!" The startled Christian looked at her with suspicion growing in his eyes.
"Art thou a wife?
Wedded to another than this man ?" he asked gravely.
"Wedded," she whispered, "to one who hath denied me, affronted me and cast me out of his house! In this man I have found favor from the beginning.

He has been tender of me, he has sheltered me, and he has strengthened me against himself to this hour.

There has been nothing sinful between us!" The old Christian's face grew immeasurably sad.
"There is but one thing for you to do," he said.
She wrenched herself away from the Maccabee, who had been angrily protesting against her carrying his case to another for decision, and confronted Nathan.
"But he rejected me!" she cried with earnestness.

"That alone is enough among our people for divorcement!" The Christian shook his head sadly.