For I believe we do not wholly die.

Fest. Aureole!

Par. Nay, do not laugh; there is a reason

For what I say: I think the soul can never

Taste death. I am, just now, as you may see,

Very unfit to put so strange a thought

In an intelligible dress of words;

But take it as my trust, she is not dead.

Fest. But not on this account alone? you surely,

—Aureole, you have believed this all along?