For," said Hushai, "thou knowest thy father and the men that are with him, how that they be strong men. And they be chafed in their minds, even as a bear robbed of her whelps. And thy father is a man practiced in war, and will not lie a nights among the common people.

And she said, "It hath been a common saying in the old time: 'Men must ask of Abel, and then go and finish the work.'