Quite the contrary, I assure you.

In fact, I did make off, for a considerable distance; not rapidly as a youth might do, but with self-reproach at my tardiness.

But the sound ceased coming; and then I remembered how wholly we are in the hand of the Lord.

A sense of the power of right rose within me, backed up by a strong curiosity; and I said to myself that if I went home, with nothing more than that to tell you, I should not have at all an easy time of it.

Therefore I resolved to face the question again, and ascertain, if possible, without self-sacrifice, what was going on among the ruins.