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The Village Chapel
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wickedness, and felt yourself powerless to prevent it—if you saw the devil's hand in a thing, and God did nothing to stop him—what then?"

Before Hepworth could answer this question, Elisabeth picked up her tray and left the room. It seemed as though she had not so much wished for an answer as that he should reconsider his own position.