[PetroniusMaximus]

***I agree, but don't you see, he has chosen to flee! She has so shocked his soul, that he cannot bear to live in reality.***

No, read it again, he says...

"Remembering the patiently waiting line of pilgrims, Mr. Wright and I silently bade farewell to Therese and left her sacred presence"

... no fleeing there.


He is quite obviously a spiritist with his yogic trances, telepathy and so forth, yet she fails to warn him of his certain doom should he not repent

[Gilead]

What makes you believe that he does not accept Jesus Christ?

[dangus]

I'm afraid you missed what I said. His fleeing from her is not in a physical manner. He cannot deny what he has seen, so he has changed the meaning of what he has seen. In this way he has fled from the reality of what she has spoken. She has spoken and given witness to Christianity, and he knows the truth of what she has done, so he has, in his own mind, changed what she has said so he can think of her as having given witness to something she in fact must have opposed; he has refused to live in the truth. It is a subtler way of fleeing than fleeing in body, but it is no less a denial of what she has said.