"No. But at Athens he sought fervently and eagerly for the truth, and now he asserts that he has found it."
"Here, among the Egyptians?"
"In Alexandria among the Christians."
"And the lame girl who accompanied the philosopher—does she too believe in the crucified God?"
"Yes. She is a sick-nurse or something of the kind. Indeed there is something grand in the ecstatic craze of these people."
"Is it true that they worship an ass and a dove?"
"Nonsense!"
"I did not want to believe it; and at any rate they are kind, and succor all who suffer, even strangers who do not belong to their sect."
"How do you know?"
"One hears a great deal about them in Alexandria."