Dare you come with me ?" This staggered me.

A man does not like to prove such a truth, Byron excepted from the category, jealousy.
"And prove the very truth he most abhorred." He saw my hesitation, and spoke, "The logic is simple, no madman's logic this time, jumping from tussock to tussock in a misty bog.

If it not be true, then proof will be relief.

At worst it will not harm.
If it be true! Ah, there is the dread.

Yet every dread should help my cause, for in it is some need of belief.