While they devoted their lives to their religion, he came away feeling that it was a cause every man himself had to fight for and it could not, as he put it, be ‘passed over the counter’ to anyone who asked for it. He found to his surprise that Aisha was exceedingly interested in what the Chinese call the World beyond the World.
She had read many books that he had read himself and quite a number he had not even heard about.
He had never known, although he had met a lot of women who were religious, a woman who was interested intellectually in the little that was known of the afterlife.
They talked and even argued with each other as the ship moved across the Mediterranean towards Italy.
“Do we stop at Rome?” Aisha asked him.
“I am afraid not, although I would have liked to show you Sain
