- Outside the valley, Christian comes up to a look-out point where he sees Faithful, the fellow pilgrim mentioned by the porter, hurrying ahead. Christian calls for him to hold up, but Faithful says he can't slow down, so Christian runs to overtake him.
- In a moment of pure Puritan slapstick, Christian smiles "vaingloriously" (P236) at having outrun Faithful and proceeds to trip and fall. Cue the Benny Hill song.
- Faithful helps him up, and the two continue together as fellow pilgrims.
- Faithful explains how he was moved to flee the City of Destruction after Christian had left.
- He tells of how Pliable was mocked by the townspeople as a "turncoat" (P350) and has to live in shame.
- Faithful tells Christian of his encounter with the lady Wanton (also referred to by Christian as Potiphar's wife who tried to tempt Joseph in Genesis—check out our "Allusions" page for more info).
- He describes how hard it was to resist her words and her looks and how he had to shut his eyes and flee. In other words, she was a babe.
- The second difficulty Faithful met with was "Adam the first" at the bottom of the Hill of Difficulty.
- Adam tried to get him to stay at his house in the town called Deceit where he had a fine house and three daughters, lovingly named The Lust of the Flesh, The Lust of the Eyes, and the Pride of Life (P366). C'mon Adam—why would you name your kids that? That pretty much ruins their chances of running for office.
- Faithful thinks better, though, when he sees a warning written on the man's forehead and tries to run away.
- Adam yanks him back and while Faithful manages to escape, Adam threatens to send someone after him.
- Faithful tells how when he came to the place of rest on the Hill of Difficulty, a man caught up with him and knocked him down repeatedly. The man told Faithful "I know not how to show mercy" (P373), which makes Christian identify him as Moses from Exodus.
- Faithful claims he would have died if a man had not intervened who he knew was the Lord because of the wounds on his hands and his side.
- Christian and Faithful discuss Moses further and how he was also the one who came and threatened Faithful in the City of Destruction.
- Faithful tells how, in the Valley of Humiliation, he met with Discontent, who was going back because the place was degrading.
- He knew it would make his friends (Pride, Arrogancy, Self-conceit, Worldly-Glory) make fun of him—people who were relations of Faithful himself. Faithful argues that since he became a pilgrim, those people have looked down on him anyway, and he would rather have humility now for the honor that will come later.
- Then Faithful met with Shame in the Valley, who, he says, was much more persistent than Discontent. He argued with Faithful that religion itself is an "unmanly" thing and that you rarely see successful, rich, or powerful people who are pilgrims.
- Above all, it is shameful, he claims, that religion causes men to be friends with sinners and the lowly instead of the upright and powerful (P387). Boo.
- Faithful tells how he was almost overcome with shame himself at this, but then remembered "that that which is highly esteemed among men, is had in abomination with God" (P389).
- This allows Faithful to realize that the concerns that Shame was raising had nothing to do with the things God will care about at judgment.
- In fact, the tender conscience that Shame says is unmanly and shameful is actually what God wants from men, so it would be wrong to feel ashamed.
- While he shakes Shame off, however, Faithful tells how persistent the man is, continuing to whisper doubts in his ear on the way.
- Christian approves and congratulates Faithful on having given Shame the slip. He then recounts what he went through in the Valley of Humiliation and the Valley of the Shadow of Death.