EGIL Even so!
YORUL I vowed to come—
EGIL [Laughing.] Knowledge—knowledge—that was my heart’s desire!
YORUL And make confession—
EGIL Why, here have I sat And licked the crumbs of knowledge from his hand As I had been his beagle; and for what? To grow! to be transmuted from a wolf Into my brother’s ape! To evolve a mind That knows at last the rapture it must lose. Oh, noble!
YORUL And make confession of my crime As of my love.
EGIL [Beginning to pace back and forth.] Ha!
YORUL For I loved her well, More than I dreamed. Love leads us from the truth And blinds us to ourselves.
EGIL Ah!