A Three-Fold Cord is Not Easily Broken

8×10″ pen and chalk pastels on paper
February 14, 2013

Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “Day Boy and Night Girl”:

But at the same instant, through her blindness, she heard Photogen give a low exultant laugh, and the next felt herself caught up: she who all night long had tended and protected him like a child, was now in his arms, borne along like a baby, with her head lying on his shoulder. But she was the greater, for, suffering more, she feared nothing.