With tenfold power and tenfold persuasion they now found their way again to Mercy's heart.

Softly, suddenly, mysteriously, a change passed over her.

Her troubled face grew beautifully still.

The shifting light of terror and suspense vanished from her grand gray eyes, and left in them the steady inner glow of a high and pure resolve.
There was a moment of silence between them.

They both had need of silence.