MARGARET: Ah, if in this I was only fluent! You don’t respect the Holy Sacrament. FAUST: I respect it. MARGARET: Without wanting it, though. You’ve passed So many years without confession, or mass. [3425] Do you believe in God? FAUST: My darling, who dare say: ‘I believe in God’? Choose priest to ask, or sage, The answer would seem a joke, would it not, Played on whoever asks? MARGARET: So, you don’t believe?
