"I won't be the first to eat one. You eat."
"Ask him first. You ask him."
"Ha-Adamah, is it allowed to eat the apples?"
"Certainly. Eat. It is the finest fruit in the garden."
"Well, the analogy breaks down there," said Stark. "I was almost beginning to believe in the thing. But if it isn't that, then what. Father Briton, you are the linguist, but in Hebrew does not Ha-Adamah and Hawwah mean—?"
"Of course they do. You know that as well as I."
"I was never a believer. But would it be possible for the exact same proposition to maintain here as on Earth?"
"All things are possible."
And it was then that Ha-Adamah, the shining man, gave a wild cry: "No, no. Do not approach it. It is not allowed to eat of that one!"