"For Hermas has been started on the road which you and I had first to find for ourselves." "You and I," repeated the sick man thoughtfully.

"Yes, each of us has sought his own way, but has enquired only which was his own way, and has never concerned himself about that of the other.

Self! self!--How many years we have dwelt close together, and I have never felt impelled to ask you what you could recall to mind about your youth, and how you were led to grace.

I learnt by accident that you were an Alexandrian, and had been a heathen, and had suffered much for the faith, and with that I was satisfied.

Indeed you do not seem very ready to speak of those long past days.