A second was enough to bring about this discovery, to change her soul, to alter her whole life.

To have learned to know herself was at first a delight.

The {greek here} of the ancient philosophy is not a precept the moral fulfilment of which procures any pleasure, since one enjoys little satisfaction from knowing one's soul.

It is not the same with the flesh, for in it sources of pleasure may be revealed to us.

Eveline immediately felt an obligation to her revealer equal to the benefit she had received, and she imagined that he who had discovered these heavenly depths was the sole possessor of the key to them.