What can have happened to make you leave the Church in this abrupt and violent fashion?
I no longer recognise you.

Sudden passion has sprung up in you, an invincible force seems to carry you away.

What is it?
Who has changed you, tell me ?" Pierre listened in astonishment.

"No," said he, "I assure you, I am such as you have known me, and in all this there is but an inevitable result and finish.

Who could have influenced me, since nobody has entered my life?
What new feeling could transform me, since I find none in me?
I am the same as before, the same assuredly." Still there was a touch of hesitation in his voice.