When Susannah was returning from her parting with Ephraim Croom, she found Joseph Smith was walking slowly upon the road not far from John Biery's hotel.

He was holding a small book open before his eyes, conning a lesson, repeating the words aloud again and again as a schoolboy might.
"It has been given to me to see that the Lord hath need of the learning of this world, Mrs.Halsey.When I have got the Latin and the Greek, I shall try to find some man who can teach me the Egyptian language, that I may know how far the ancient Egyptian from which I translated the Book differs therefrom." Susannah had expected to find him excited after the events of the past night, but instead he was intent only upon committing a portion of the Latin grammar to memory, learning by rote as children did in those days.
"My husband told me," she began.

She stood in awe of Smith, hardly knowing how to express herself to him; then she went on, almost roughly, "I don't see how Newell Knight could have gone up in the air and come down again; it does not seem to me sensible." He clasped his hands behind his back, his large thumb holding his place open in the lesson-book, and walked beside her, his head bent somewhat forward in reverie.
"I am often much taken aback at what happens to me now, Mrs.Halsey, but I do declare to ye that that was the greatest wonder I ever saw before my eyes; and it's given to me to see that ye've got the same sort of difficulty about him as it's natural for me to have." He began to lapse in his own dialect.

"Ye want to see the reason why of things.

Well, I tell ye, I've just got down to this point, that I've give up tryin' to see why.