—"No, they are not suns! They have not the same form as the sun... You must not say there is no sky: it is wicked! But you are not a Catholic!"
—"My dear Cyrillia, I don't see what that has to do with the sky."
—"Where does the Good-God stay, if there be no sky? And where is heaven?—and where is hell?"
—"Hell in the sky, Cyrillia?"
—"The Good-God made heaven in one part of the sky, and hell in another part, for bad people.... Ah! you are a Protestant;—you do not know the things of the Good-God! That is why you talk like that."
—"What is a Protestant, Cyrillia?"
—"You are one. The Protestants do not believe in religion,—do not love the Good-God."
—"Well, I am neither a Protestant nor a Catholic, Cyrillia."
—"Oh! you do not mean that; you cannot be a maudi, an accursed. There are only the Protestants, the Catholics, and the accursed. You are not a maudi, I am sure, But you must not say there is no sky"...
—"But, Cyrillia"—