THE DEVIL. Not that we don't admire your intellect, you know. We do. But I look at the matter from your own point of view. You don't get on with us. The place doesn't suit you. The truth is, you have--I won't say no heart; for we know that beneath all your affected cynicism you have a warm one. DON JUAN. [shrinking] Don't, please don't. THE DEVIL. [nettled] Well, you've no capacity for enjoyment. Will that satisfy you? DON JUAN. It is a somewhat less insufferable form of cant than the other. But if you'll allow me, I'll take refuge, as usual, in solitude. THE DEVIL. Why not take refuge in Heaven? That's the proper place for you. [To Ana] Come, Senora! could you not persuade him for his own good to try a change of air? ANA. But can he go to Heaven if he wants to? THE DEVIL. What's to prevent him? ANA. Can anybody--can I go to Heaven if I want to? THE DEVIL. [rather contemptuously] Certainly, if your taste lies that way. ANA. But why doesn't everybody go to Heaven, then? THE STATUE. [chuckling] I can tell you that, my dear. It's because heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation: that's why. THE DEVIL. His excellency the Commander puts it with military bluntness; but the strain of living in Heaven is intolerable. There is a notion that I was turned out of it; but as a matter of fact nothing could have induced me to stay there. I simply left it and organized this place. THE STATUE. I don't wonder at it. Nobody could stand an eternity of heaven. THE DEVIL. Oh, it suits some people. Let us be just, Commander: it is a question of temperament. I don't admire the heavenly temperament: I don't understand it: I don't know that I particularly want to understand it; but it takes all sorts to make a universe. There is no accounting for tastes: there are people who like it. I think Don Juan would like it. DON JUAN. But--pardon my frankness--could you really go back there if you desired to; or are the grapes sour? THE DEVIL. Back there! I often go back there. Have you never read the book of Job? Have you any canonical authority for assuming that there is any barrier between our circle and the other one? ANA. But surely there is a great gulf fixed.