That seems to me to be God.

Sometimes I feel as though all our lives were a thought of the Eternal, which would have as clear an expression as we would let it." Lois had not followed his words, and said impatiently as he finished, "Well, anyhow, he is cruel, and Helen should not have felt as she did when I said so." Gifford hesitated.

"She could not help it.

How could she let you say it ?" "What!" cried Lois, "you think he's not cruel ?" "His will is not cruel," Gifford answered, "but I meant--I meant--she couldn't let you speak as you did of John Ward, to his wife." Lois flung her head back.

"You think I said too much ?" she asked.