My spirit shook off depression to some extent on hearing this, [520] like the sun a cloud. What then? What outcome had my troubles? I took myself to task. So far as his see was concerned, there could be no harm in acceding to my father’s wish. It will not hold me, I argued, against my will, for I am bound neither by decree nor promise. [525] And so parental fear won the day and brought me back again. Then, when my parents passed away to receive the reward they had so