Did you believe in it when you were at school? I bet you did. — I did, Stephen answered. — And were you happier then? Cranly asked softly, happier than you are now, for instance? — Often happy, Stephen said, and often unhappy. I was someone else then. — How someone else? What do you mean by that statement? — I mean, said Stephen, that I was not myself as I am now, as I had to become.
