“But that is ridiculous!” Willa exclaims. “It is not necessary. There is nothing that you cannot be helped with. It is like when you pray. If your prayer is answered, then God still has to use some person through whom your prayers can be answered. Why cannot you talk to us openly now? It may turn out that it is entirely within our ability to help you.”
But again, Sylvia shakes her head. This time she does not even answer.
Willa is so moved by the expression of helpless sorrow on the girl’s face that she cannot speak.
“Look,” Elmien says again. “Take for example this difficulty that the farmers are having with the governor. Even they have found a campaigner, none other than the Masked Robber!”
Immediately, Sylvia looks up. A glimmer of hope appears in her eyes and a light blush spreads
