Maximus.

Is it worth while to will what is possible?

Julian.

Word-froth from the lecture-halls! You can no longer cram my mind with that. And yet——oh no, no, Maximus! But you cannot understand how it is with us. We are like vines transplanted into a new, strange soil; transplant us back again, and we die; yet in the new soil we cannot thrive.

Maximus.

We? Whom do you call we?

Julian.

All who are under the terror of the revelation.

Maximus.

A terror of shadows!