The habit of listening to the revelations of the human heart had given him something of that clairvoyance which can only be pursued by the primitive mind, unvexed by complexity.
"It is, then, as though you had not come to life again?
It is as though you had no past, Monsieur ?" "It is that, Monsieur." Jo suddenly turned and left the room, for he heard a step on the frosty snow without.
"You will remain here, Monsieur ?" said the Cure.

"I cannot tell." The Cure had the bravery of simple souls with a duty to perform.

He fastened his eyes on Charley.

"Monsieur, is there any reason why you should not stay here?
I ask it now, man to man--not as a priest of my people, but as man to man." Charley did not answer for a moment.

He was wondering how he should put his reply.