"Yes."
"I said that the soul which could reproduce hell should be able to reproduce heaven."
"I know."
"Well, my boy—for you are a boy to me—the reverse of that might happen also."
"Perhaps. But I don't quite see."
"The application—to you?"
"To me?"
"Yes, to you, Cresswell. You have been given a strangely perfect nature. As you say, you seem to have nothing to do with the matter. You have even been inclined to rebel against your gift. But, take my advice. Cherish it. Don't play with it, as you have been playing. Remember, if you lose heaven, the space once filled by heaven will not be left empty."
"Ah! now I see. You think that I—"
"Might swing from a great height to an equally great depth. That has been my experience—that the man who is once extreme is always extreme, but not always in the same way. The greatest libertines have made the greatest ascetics. But, within my own experience, I have known the reverse process to obtain. And you, if you changed, might carry Addison with you."