Alas! Alas! Miserable mother! Holy Maria! pray for me." "Mi madre, I am innocent of wrong.

I have committed no sin.

Is it a sin to obey my father?
Isabel, darling, speak for me." "But, then, what have you done, Antonia ?" "Fray Ignatius wants us to go to the convent.

I refused.

My father made me promise to do so.