TYLTYL
As you please, but I can't make it out.... And, if I refuse to obey, if I love just for myself, if I take a different girl from the one they want to force on me, what will they do then? What will happen?
THE GREAT ANCESTOR
Merely this, that the choice you will have made for yourself, without our approval, will not be a real choice; in other words, you will not love the woman whom you thought you loved. You will have made a mistake, you will be unhappy and, at the same time, you will make all of us unhappy, those who came before you as well as those who come after.
TYLTYL
Does that often happen?
THE GREAT ANCESTOR
Very often, far too often: that is why you see so many unhappy people on earth.
TYLTYL
Well, what am I to do?