With each time Addie turns down Luc’s urgings to surrender to him, Luc develops new strategies to tempt Addie to give up and relinquish her soul. Here, he seems to have realized that no amount of suffering or loneliness will be enough to tempt Addie, so he appeals to her thirst for knowledge, offering the temptation of “the truth” if she gives in to him. But Addie, once more, shows Luc that he has underestimated and misunderstood her, suggesting that it’s not knowledge that she prizes, but the quest for it: the experience of learning and understanding might necessitate uncertainty and error, but at least to Addie, this uncertainty—this sustained “wonder”—is what makes life worthwhile.