B: “Then did not regularly and faithfully carried out duties exhaust thee?”
A: “No, dear hermit, for I was living in a fairy-land palace from which the following torments were entirely excluded: need, worry, work, and illness.”
B: “Worldly attractions and habits may have led thee off the good track and restrained thy liberty?”
A: “We were by no means subjected to any such rules, nor even to etiquette.”
B: “It is possible that the laws of your palace were extremely severe and therefore made you feel very depressed?”
A: “But really, we acknowledged no laws.”
B: “Well then, perhaps the wealthy proprietor of the palace abused his might and compelled you to do certain disagreeable things which were unjustifiable?”
A: “Not in the least, for Astkchicka was sole mistress and administrator of the palace.”
B: “There now remains but one supposition, viz., that she united such people as would naturally perfectly hate one another?”
A: “Why, not at all, we all gathered around her in the mighty name of love.”