“I have answered your questions,” said Wilhelm, “answer you some of mine. Who are you?”
“I am a seeker after light.”
“Well, there it is,” said Wilhelm, touching the lantern with his foot as he paced up and down the limits of the cell.
“Earthly light is but dim at best, it is the light of Heaven I search after.”
“Well, I hope you may be successful in finding it. I know of no place where it is needed so much as here.”
“You speak like a scoffer. I thought from what you said of God’s will, that you were a religious man.”
“I am a religious man, I hope, and I regret if my words seem lightly spoken.
“What action of man, think you then, is most pleasing to God?”
“That is a question which you, to judge by your garb, are more able to answer than I.”
“Nay, nay, I want your opinion.”