" The Catholic chruch as threatened your life - do you not want revenge? Have you not sold your hatred to the Pretestant cause to work against the church that has hunted you?" " No," I said simply. " I hate no one. I want only to be left in peace to understand the mysteries of the universe in my own way." " God has already laid out for us the mysteries of the universe, or as much as He permits us to understand. You think your way is better?" " Better than these wars of dogma that have led men to burn and fillet one another across Europe for fifty years? Yes, I do." " Then what is it you believe?" I looked at him. " I believe that, in the end, even the devils will be pardoned. "