These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.

Awards and honours
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Annual Novel Award 1944 for Green Dolphin Country. Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was an English author of novels short stories and children's books as Elizabeth Goudge.

A best-selling author in both the UK and the US from the 1930s through the 1970s her books gained renewed attention in 1993 when one of them was plagiarised by Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen. Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was an English author of novels short stories and children's books as Elizabeth Goudge. The "new" novel set in India garnered rave reviews in both The New York Times and the The Washington Post before its source was discovered.