Much of what they had said was true.
Perhaps that was why the sadness came.
One of the men noticed his silence.
“What?”
The ruler looked down at the place where the bread had been.
Then he raised his eyes.
“Tell me something.”
They waited.
“If a world without buying and selling would fail because no man would work unless he could have more than another man…”
He stopped.
No one interrupted him.
“Then what do you think heaven is like?”