He wrung his bands together.
'You lie! A thousand times you lie! Either Veranilda or Aurelia is in this house.

Who was it you brought back with you yesterday when you returned from beyond the walls ?' The listener uttered a short, fierce laugh.
'So that is what brought you here?
O fool! Think you I should have no more wisdom than that?
Since you must needs pry into my doings yesterday, you shall hear them.

I went to the church of the holy Petronilla, to pray there against all the dangers that environ me--against the wiles of the wicked, the cruelty of violent men, the sickness which is rife about us.

And when I rose from before the altar, the servant of God who passes his life there, who is pleased to regard me with kindness, led me apart into the sacristy, where sat a woman who had lost her sight.

She had travelled, he told me, from Mediolanum, because of a vision in which she had been bidden to seek the tomb of the daughter of the chief Apostle; and, whilst praying in the church, her darkness had been illumined by a vision of the saint herself, who bade her go into the city, and abide in the house of the first who offered her welcome, and there at length she would surely receive her sight.