“It is not a fair match, that, between a pretty wench and a young beginner in philosophy” (III.12)
“Wait, allow me to see who you are and whence you come (just as the night-watch say, ‘Show me your tokens’). – that is, show me your travel papers, your passport…”
“And so now I am your teacher, and you are being taught in my school. And my purpose is this – to make of you a perfect work, secure against restraint, compulsion, and hindrance, free, prosperous, happy, looking to God in everything both small and great; and you are here with the purpose of learning and practicing all this… Why, then, do you not finish the work? Tell me the reason. … The fault lies either in me, or in you, or, what is nearer the truth, in us both. What then? Would you like to have us at last begin to introduce here a purpose such as I have described? Let us let bygones be bygones. Only let us begin, and, take my word for it, you shall see.” (II.19)