"What's temperamental?"
"Having the devil and God in you both at the same time," muttered Peter after a moment.
"I know," she said. "Satan and God, with God just sittin' back a little to see how far Satan will go."
He smiled at her. "You don't mean that you have temptations too, Beth?"
She ignored his question, her face sober, and went back to her subject.
"I guess your prince wasn't any better or any worse than a lot of other people. Maybe he didn't give God a chance?"
"No. Maybe not," said Peter.
"It seems to me he must have been kind of human, somehow," Beth commented reflectively. "What's become of him now?" she asked, then.
"Oh, he's out of it," replied Peter.
"Dead?"