THE GREAT ANCESTOR
And yet we have always lived in each other; for you were already living in me when I was on earth; and now I live in you while you are still on that same earth, which we seem to have quitted.... But what do you think of this place of ours?... Let me have the pleasure of showing you over your home.
TYLTYL
My home?
THE GREAT ANCESTOR
Certainly.... You are at home here.... And a very nice home it is.... Everything you see—this square, that prison, the church, those houses, we who live in them—all this is really only inside yourself.... People rarely see it, they don't even suspect it; but it's true.
TYLTYL
I should never have thought there was so much room inside myself and that it was so large....
THE GREAT ANCESTOR
It's much larger really; there's a great deal that you don't see.... But that is not what interests us to-day; let us come straight to the point, to the great question that brings you here.... We are going to choose the woman whom you are to love....