Paul Ruttledge. I find them on the whole better company than the people I left a little while ago. Let me introduce you to——
Jerome. What can you possibly gain by coming here? Are you going to try and teach them?
Paul Ruttledge. Oh! no, I am going to learn from them.
Jerome. What can you learn from them?
Paul Ruttledge. To pick up my living like the crows, and to solder tin cans. Just give me that one I mended a while ago.
[Holds it out to Father Jerome.
Jerome. That is all nonsense.
Paul Ruttledge. I am happy. Do not your saints put all opponents to the rout by saying they alone of all mankind are happy?
Jerome. I suppose you will not compare the happiness of these people with the happiness of saints?
Paul Ruttledge. There are all sorts of happiness. Some find their happiness like Thomas à Kempis, with a little book and a little cell.