a moment, and went on, ‘I know that she understood your goodness even better than I do. And if I was rude or in any
way wanting at that time you acted so, you remember,’—the Professor nodded—‘You must forgive me.’
He answered with a grave kindness, ‘I know it was hard for you to quite trust me then, for to trust such violence needs to understand, and I take it that you do not, that you cannot, trust me now, for you do not yet understand. And there may be more times when I shall want you to trust when you cannot, and may not, and must not yet understand. But the time will come when your trust shall be whole and complete in me, and when you shall understand as though the sunlight himself shone through. Then you shall bless me from first to last for your own sake, and for the sake of other
