—"No: I will not listen to you:—you are a Protestant. Where does the rain come from, if there is no sky,"...
—"Why, Cyrillia... the clouds"...
—"No, you are a Protestant.... How can you say such things? There are the Three Kings and the Three Valets,—the beautiful stars that come at Christmas-time,—there, over there—all beautiful, and big, big, big!... And you say there is no sky!"
—"Cyrillia, perhaps I am a maudi."
—"No, no! You are only a Protestant. But do not tell me there is no sky: it is wicked to say that!"
—"I won't say it any more, Cyrillia—there! But I will say there are no zombis."
—"I know you are not a maudi;—you have been baptized."
—"How do you know I have been baptized?"
—"Because, if you had not been baptized you would see zombis all the time, even in broad day. All children who are not baptized see zombis."...