A heretic go to Confession?
Carlino shrugged his shoulders, One Comedy of Errors more or less, what did it matter?
Protestantism and Roman Catholicism were, after all, much the same thing.

The priest would then regain his old faith through contact with the simple, steadfast belief of the girl.
Here Carlino interrupted his story, avowing, in parenthesis, that he really did not know what kind of belief Noemi held.

She flushed, and replied that she was a Protestant.

Protestant, certainly; but a Protestant pure and simple?
Noemi lost her patience.

"I am a Protestant, that is enough," she exclaimed; "and you need not trouble yourself about my faith." Noemi was, in fact, true to her own faith, not so much from conviction as from her reverent affection for the memory of her parents; and in her heart she had disapproved of her sister's conversion.
Carlino continued.