Let us rather see whose thoughts are truer." "That is, according to you, we've been fooled about God also.

So! I, too, think that our religion is false and injurious to us." Here the mother intervened.

When her son spoke about God and about everything that she connected with her faith in him, which was dear and sacred to her, she sought to meet his eyes, she wanted to ask her son mutely not to chafe her heart with the sharp, bitter words of his unbelief.

And she felt that Rybin, an older man, would also be displeased and offended.

But when Rybin calmly put his question to Pavel, she could no longer contain herself, and said firmly: "When you speak of God, I wish you were more careful.