38/55 I have thought it all over, as one thinks of everything when everything is in danger. The only other course is to throw ourselves upon Veronica's mercy--" "Well? "She is kind, she is charitable, she will forgive everything and save you--" "The shame of it, Bosio! Of confessing it all--and she may refuse. She is a Serra, as I am, and though she is a mere girl, if she takes it into her head to be hard and unforgiving, there would be no power on earth that could move her. She is not so unlike me, Bosio. |