Between the ferryman and the sailor a silent agreement existed according to which they talked only when they were alone on the bark that is when they went for the next transport over the Styx. It would not have been a clever thing to chat in friendly terms, the damned souls would have found it funny, moreover it would give way to wicked feelings in them because Charon showed a favor to one of them – moreover this favored one remained on board of the bark and moved more and more away from the horrors them awaiting. It could happen that they would lodge a complaint against the ferryman at one of the judges of the otherworld although – frankly speaking – in the state of mind they were presently it was not peaching that would be their first thought: they were most busy with their panicky frigh
