No harm is done, nothing lost but Dorothea's credit among the Christians.

We may have to get her safe out of the town.

I must escort you and Agatha, for nothing unpleasant must happen to her on the way home.

The master is imperative on that point, and so much beauty will certainly not get through the crowded streets without remark.

And for my part, I, of course, am thinking of yours." Here Castor laughed aloud, and rolled the white robe into a bundle.
Alexander peeped out of his nook and shook his head in amazement, for the supple youth, who a moment before stood stalwart and upright, had assumed, with a bent attitude and a long, white beard hastily placed on his chin, the aspect of a weary, poor old man.
"I will give you a lesson!" muttered Alexander to himself, and he shook his fist at the intriguing rascal as he vanished into the house with the false deaconess.
So Serapion was a cheat! And the supposed ghost of Korinna was a Christian maiden who was being shamefully deluded.