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ALICE (to Priest) It is very pleasant to welcome you back to our group. I hope your trip was successful.
PRIEST It was; I am glad to be back and to find you all looking so well. How's the debate been progressing?
ROBIN Well; though I don't think we made any discoveries. We were wondering whether you could re-light the flame which seems to have grown dim to near extinction. How was your conference?
PRIEST Much like others I have known – in fact I suspect my experience has not been so different from yours. Your account could be transferred to the religious conference without verbal alterations – insignificant, but not in the eyes of God.
ROBIN Why drag in God? We have no evidence of his existence.
PRIEST True. But the fact that we cannot prove that God exists may be a matter of importance only to our self-admiring selves. ‘Self-yeast of spirit a dull dough sours’, as the poet says. ‘But, swollen with wind and the rank mist they draw …‘, as an earlier poet said.
ROLAND You do not mention that the two you quote were of opposing sects.
PRIEST Of opposing sects, yes; but at one in agreeing there is a God.
ROLAND Between them there is not one god but two. In fact there seem to be as many gods as there are people to believe in them.
P.A. I agree, but that is only saying that different individuals have different ideas about whom they are addressing and in what manner they should communicate their approach.