He could hardly have had a more easy convert, for the nature with which he had to deal was now swept and garnished, ready for the entrance of all devils or gods.

The dinner went for much.

"I was too good a guest," writes Rousseau in one of his few passages of humour, "to be a good theologian, and his Frangi wine, which struck me as excellent, was such a triumphant argument on his side, that I should have blushed to oppose so capital a host."[25] So it was agreed that he should be put in a way to be further instructed of these matters.

We may accept Rousseau's assurance that he was not exactly a hypocrite in this rapid complaisance.

He admits that any one who should have seen the artifices to which he resorted, might have thought him very false.