Which of these men loves the other more? In case of severe trial will
each be true to the other? Is either likely to be vengeful? unforgiving?
fickle?
=3.= That myth that somehow had to be the truth,
What is “that myth”? What feeling is expressed in “had to be the
truth”?
=4.= Yet could not be convincing any more.
Why could it not “be convincing any more”?
=17.= And so with merry jest the old man went;
Note in the passage the second forecast of disaster.