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Yet Mary and Joseph, after all their long journey from Nazareth, could not find even an empty leewan to lie down in. Near that inn there was a place in which asses and camels were kept. It was perhaps a cave in the side of the hill. And because there was no room for them in the inn, Mary and Joseph had to go into that stable to sleep, and in that stable Jesus Christ was born.
Not thus came the maidens of Israel to wedlock, demure, spotless, spiritless, with shorn hair, priestesses of the ritual of the home. "Peace, O Melisselda," he replied involuntarily. "Nay, wherefore Melisselda?" she cried, ascending to the leewán on which he stood. "And wherefore Messiah?" he answered.
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