"Yes."
"Were we not to go there together, Ben?"
"Certainly I dreamed that once myself, before Jan Dyckman was found dying in a dirty alley. And afterwards too, until I learned why he had to lie there."
"Did I not give you the vision?"
"Yes."
"And see it strike fire in you?"
"Yes."
"As I never saw it in any other.... Have I not been kind?"
"Yes."
"Forbearing too? Forgiving a thousand things I'd never take from any other man?"