Then said Mrs. Diffidence: At dawn of day take them to the yard,
and show them the graves where all those whom you have put to
death have been thrown, and make use of threats this time.

So Giant Despair took them to this place, and said: In ten days
time you shall be thrown in here if you do not yield. Go; get you
down to your den once more. With that he beat them all the way
back, and there they lay the whole day in a sad plight.

Now, when night was come, Mrs. Diffidence said to Giant Despair:
I fear much that these men live on in hopes to pick the lock of
the cell and get free.

Dost thou say so, my dear? quoth Giant Despair to his wife; then
at sun rise I will search them.

Now, on that night, as Christian and Hopeful lay in the den, they
fell on their knees to pray, and knelt till the day broke; when
Christian gave a start, and said: Fool that I am thus to lie in
this dark den when I might walk at large! I have a key in my
pouch, the name of which is Promise, that, I feel sure, will turn
the lock of all the doors in Doubting Castle.

Then said Hopeful: That is good news; pluck it from thy breast,
and let us try it.

So Christian put it in the lock, when the bolt sprang back, the
door flew wide, and Christian and Hopeful both came out. When
they got to the yard door the key did just as well; but the lock