For her the question stands upon simpler, truer, lines, not involved by rule or dogma: 'Is it right for me, or wrong for me?
Is it the will of God that I should do this thing ?'" "But if you tell her, my lord, of the Holy Father's dispensation and permission; what will she then say ?" "What will she then say ?" Symon of Worcester softly laughed, as at something which stirred an exceeding tender memory.

"She will probably say: 'You amaze me, my lord! Indeed, my lord, you amaze me! His Holiness the Pope may rule at Rome; _you_, my Lord Bishop, rule in the cities of this diocese; but _I_ rule in this Nunnery, and while I rule here, such a thing as this shall never be!'" The Bishop gently passed his hands the one over the other, as was his habit when a recollection gave him keen mental pleasure.
"That is what the Prioress would probably say, my dear Knight, were I so foolish as to flaunt before her this most priceless parchment.

And yet--I know not.

It may be wise to send it, or to show it without much comment, simply in order that she may see the effect upon the mind of the Holy Father himself, of a full knowledge of the complete facts of the case." "My lord," said the Knight, with much earnestness, "how came that full knowledge to His Holiness in Rome ?" "When first you came to me," replied the Bishop, "with this grievous tale of wrong and treachery, I knew that if you won your way with Mora, we must be armed with highest authority for the marriage and for her return to the world, or sorrow and much trial for her might follow, with, perhaps, danger for you.

Therefore I resolved forthwith to lay the whole matter, without loss of time, before the Pope himself.