“A strange sort of messiah.”
“I’ve been trying to tell you this.” She smiled. “He sounds at times not unlike you just now ... not so glib perhaps.”
“Now you mock me.”
“No more than you deserve for assuming facts without evidence.”
“If he throws over all the mystical baggage what is left? an ethical system?”
“In time, I suppose, that will come. So far there is no system. You’ll see for yourself soon enough.”
“You’ve yet to answer any direct question I have put to you.”
She laughed. “Perhaps there is a significance in that; perhaps you ask the wrong questions....”
“And perhaps you have no answers.”
“Wait.”