Is not that simple enough ?" "An example, please, Goddess," demanded John Derringham with a cynical smile.
"The dark is an example," she went on quietly.

"People fill the dark with their own frightening images and fear it because they themselves have turned it into evil.

The dark is as kind as the day." John Derringham laughed.

He was amused at this precocious wisdom and he suddenly remembered that his old master had mentioned some clever child when writing to him first about the place, two months before.

This was the creature, then, who was learning Greek.