"He who married Adam and Eve—God."
"Foolish woman! That was when there were no priests nor altars. But now things are not managed so easily, and there is a law to govern them."
"I know it: the law drove me to this island; but that law has no jurisdiction here."
"So you are an absolute heathen?"
"I wish to live and die in peace."
"And you have permitted your daughter to live in shame?"
"What is shame?"
"Shame? The contempt of all respectable people."
"Does that make me warm or cold?"
"Unfeeling clod! You only care for your bodily weal. You never think of the salvation of your soul. I come to show you the way to heaven, and you prefer the road to hell! Do you believe in the resurrection, or in eternal life?"