In the present romance there is much more tragedy.
One night while sleeping in his friend's castle, the leper was awakened by an angel from God--Raphael--who said to him: "I am Raphael, the angel of the Lord, and I am come to tell thee how thou mayst be healed.

Thou shalt bid Amile thy comrade that he slay his two children and wash thee in their blood, and so thy body shall be made whole." And Amis said to him, "Let not this thing be, that my comrade should become a murderer for my sake." But the angel said, "It is convenient that he do this." And thereupon the angel departed.
The phrase, "it is convenient," must be understood as meaning, "it is ordered." For the mediaeval lord used such gentle expressions when issuing his commands; and the angel talked like a feudal messenger.

But in spite of the command, the sick man does not tell his friend about the angel's visit, until Amile, who has overheard the voice, forces him to acknowledge whom he had been talking with during the night.

And the emotion of the lord may be imagined, though he utters it only in the following gentle words--"I would have given to thee my man servants and my maid servants and all my goods--and thou feignest that an angel hath spoken to thee that I should slay my two children.

But I conjure thee by the faith which there is between me and thee and by our comradeship, and by the baptism we received together, that thou tell me whether it was man or angel said that to thee." Amis declares that it was really an angel, and Amile never thinks of doubting his friend's word.