Have you no other way, Inez ?" She thought a while, then prodded the Fray Henriques with her foot, saying: "Get up, sainted secretary to the Holy Office, and do a little writing, which will be easy to you.

See, here are pens and paper.

Now I'll dictate: "'Most Adorable Inez, "'Your dear message has reached me safely here in this accursed Holy House, where we lighten heretics of their sins to the benefit of their souls, and of their goods to the benefit of our own bodies----'" "I cannot write it," groaned Henriques; "it is rank heresy." "No, only the truth," answered Inez.
"Heresy and the truth--well, they are often the same thing.

They would burn me for it." "That is just what many heretics have urged.

They have died gloriously for what they hold to be the truth, why should not you?
Listen," she went on more sternly.