The End of Gerasim

Gerasim is willing to stay up all night, not for himself, but because it makes someone else feel better. And so we have here in Gerasim a kind of articulation of a, what's called a spiritual principle of other focused care that is based in truth. But as you say, this is not the end of the story. He then sends, as he then has to face himself directly, to face these questions directly in a dialogue with his own soul. Tell us why he sends Gerasim away.