1 Samuel 1:17 Eli answered, ‘Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him.’
When Hannah prayed silently to God by the doorstep of the Lord’s house, Eli presumed her to be drunken.
She opened up to Eli and said she was praying earnestly in anguish.
Eli’s answer was to ask God to grant her wish, which He did, and that is how Samuel was conceived!