Mercy:--O that we could have you for our guide all the rest of
the way! For how can such weak folk as we are hold out in a path
fraught with toils and snares, if we have no friends to take us?

James:--Pray, Sir, keep with us and help us, when the way we go
is so hard to find.

Great-heart:--As my Lord wills, so must I do; if He send me to
join you once more, I shall be glad to wait on you. But it was
here that you were in fault at first, for when He bade me come
thus far with you, if you had said, We beg of you to let him go
quite through with us, He would have let me do so. But now I must
go back; and so good Christiana, Mercy and my dear boys, fare ye
all well.

Then did Watchful, who kept the lodge, ask Christiana whence she
had come and who her friends were.

Christiana:--I come from The City of Destruction, and I was the
wife of one Christian, who is dead.

Then Watchful rang the hell, as at such times he is wont, and
there came to the door a maid, to whom he said: Go, make it known
that Christiana, the wife of Christian, and her four boys are
come on their way to The Celestial City. .

So she went in and told all this. And, oh, what shouts of joy
were sent forth when those words fell from her mouth! So all came
with haste to Watchful; for Christiana still stood at the door.