About one detail there were no differences; all agreed that Father Peter's account of how the money came into his hands was just about unbelievable--it had such an impossible look.

They said it might have come into the astrologer's hands in some such way, but into Father Peter's, never! Our characters began to suffer now.

We were Father Peter's only witnesses; how much did he probably pay us to back up his fantastic tale?
People talked that kind of talk to us pretty freely and frankly, and were full of scoffings when we begged them to believe really we had told only the truth.

Our parents were harder on us than any one else.

Our fathers said we were disgracing our families, and they commanded us to purge ourselves of our lie, and there was no limit to their anger when we continued to say we had spoken true.