His air was sombre and wistful, and yet with a kind of noble content in it.

He had Abe's puckered-up lips and Abe's steady sad eyes....

Into her memory came a verse of the Scriptures which had always fascinated her.

"These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims upon the earth." She saw it all in a flash of enlightenment.

These seekers throughout the ages had been looking for something and had not found it.