And besides--but I do not want to grieve you .-- You have a habit of only looking backwards...." "And what that is pleasurable lies before me?
Your blame is harsh and at the same time unjust .-- Indeed, and how can you tell which way I look ?" "Because I have watched you with the eye of a friend.

In truth, Paula, you have forgotten how to look around and forward.

The life which lies behind you and which you have lost is all your world.

I once showed you on a fragmentary papyrus that belonged to my foster father, Horus Apollo, a heathen demon represented as going forwards, while his head was turned on his neck so that the face and eyes looked behind him." "I remember it perfectly." "Well, you have long been just like him.

'All things move,' says Heraclitus, so you are forced to float onwards with the great stream; or, to vary the image, you must walk forwards on the high-road of life towards the common goal; but your eye is fixed on what lies behind you, feasting on the prospect of a handsome and wealthy home, kindness and tenderness, noble and loving faces, and a happy, but alas! long-lost existence.