"Do you remember," he began with a subdued smile, "do you remem- ber, Helena e e, when we talked once some time ago, about bypaths? At that time I took up the cudgels for bypaths, I praised them--And the n they got hold of me and led me astray a long way. One can wander aimlessly like that for years: sometimes in utter darkness, with no road before one at all.