Talks with G., and the unexpected turn he gave to every idea, interested me more and more every day. But I had to go to Petersburg.

I remember my last talk with him.

I had thanked him for the consideration he had given me and for his explanations which, I already saw, had changed many things for me.

“But all the same, you know, the most important thing is facts,” I said. “If I could see genuine and real facts of a new and unknown character, only they would finally convince me that I am on the right way.”

I was again thinking of “miracles.”

“There will be facts,” said G. “I promise you. But many other things are necessary first.”