_Chr._ Yes, my Wife and Children saw me at the first, and called after me to turn again; also some of my Neighbours stood crying and calling after me to return; but I put my fingers in my ears, and so came on my way. _Good-Will._ But did none of them follow you, to persuade you to go back? _Chr._ Yes, both _Obstinate_ and _Pliable_; but when they saw that they could not prevail, _Obstinate_ went railing back, but _Pliable_ came with me a little way. _Good-Will._ But why did he not come through? _Chr._ We indeed came both together, until we came at the Slow of _Dispond_, into the which we also suddenly fell. And then was my Neighbour _Pliable_ discouraged, and would not adventure further. Wherefore getting out again on that side next to his own house, he told me I should possess the brave countrey alone for him; so he went _his_ way, and I came _mine_: he after _Obstinate_, and I to this Gate. _Good-Will._ Then said _Good-Will_, Alas, poor man, is the Coelestial Glory of so small esteem with him, that he counteth it not worth running the hazards of a few difficulties to obtain it? _Chr._ Truly, said _Christian_, I have said the truth of _Pliable_, and if I should also say all the truth of myself, it will appear there is no betterment 'twixt him and myself. 'T is true, he went back to his own house, but I also turned aside to go in the way of death, being persuaded thereto by the carnal arguments of one Mr. _Worldly Wiseman_. _Good-Will._ O, did he light upon you? What! he would have had you a sought for ease at the hands of Mr. _Legality_. They are both of them a very cheat. But did you take his counsel? _Chr._ Yes, as far as I durst: I went to find out Mr. _Legality_, until I thought that the Mountain that stands by his house would have fallen upon my head; wherefore there I was forced to stop. _Good-Will._ That Mountain has been the death of many, and will be the death of many more; 't is well you escaped being by it dashed in pieces. _Chr._ Why truly I do not know what had become of me there, had not _Evangelist_ happily met me again, as I was musing in the midst of my dumps; but 't was God's mercy that he came to me again, for else I had never come hither. But now I am come, such a one as I am, more fit indeed for death by that Mountain than thus to stand talking with my Lord; but O, what a favor is this to me, that yet I am admitted entrance here! _Good-Will._ We make no objections against any; notwithstanding all that they have done before they come hither, they in no wise are cast out; and therefore, good _Christian_, come a little way with me, and I will teach thee about the way thou must go. Look before thee; dost thou see this narrow way? THAT is the way thou must go; it was cast up by the Patriarchs, Prophets, Christ, his Apostles; and it is as straight as a rule can make it: This is the way thou must go. _Chr._ But said _Christian_, Is there no turnings nor windings, by which a Stranger may lose the way?