To be certain that he was not mistaken he said,
“I may be wrong, but I have the feeling that you are saying a prayer for your escape. ”
Daniela turned to look at him, her eyes very large in her small face.
“Last night,” she replied, “I felt that my – prayers were – going up to – God like birds – flying into the – sky. I felt too as if I – flew with them.”
“And God has helped you.”
“He sent you to – save me,” Daniela said simply, “and I feel that – Papa and Mama had – a hand in it too – in fact I have a great many prayers to say.”
Then, as if she thought that the Marquis was slightly sceptical, although she had no idea why she should feel like that, she added,
“Papa always said that people were very ungrateful. They whined and complained when things went wrong, but never remembered t
