You will have your reward.

The darkness, the stones that made your feet to stumble, what are these but symbols of your spiritual state?
In your blindness, you sought one blind as yourselves, to follow whom was to walk in darkness eternal.

But a beneficent Power has watched over you, guiding your steps in the better way, whereof you recked not.' Aurelia and Veranilda had raised their heads, and were gazing at him, in fearful astonishment.
'Be not troubled,' he went on, taking a step forward and speaking in a voice strong and clear.

'Though unworthy, I am a priest of the faith in which you, Aurelia, were baptized.

In my hands you will suffer no harm, no indignity.