You will give me your word of honour, will you not ?" "I will." "And by this you are simply striving to enter the harmony of the world, where everything is subjected to a law.

Is not the falling of a stone the fulfilment of a vow, of the vow called the law of gravitation ?" I shall not go into detail about this conversation and the others that followed.

The obstinate and unrestrained youth, who had insulted me by calling me liar, became one of my warmest adherents.
I must return to the others.

During the time that I talked with the young man, the desire for penitence among my charming proselytes reached its height.

Not patient enough to wait for me, they commenced in a state of intense ecstasy to confess to one another, giving to the room an appearance of a garden where dozens of birds of paradise were twittering at the same time.