Duty takes me, my beloved, or I would not go." Her mind responded instinctively to the word "duty," "Go then, dear Knight," she said.

"Settle this business with Symon of Worcester.

I have no desire to know its purport.

If it concerns my flight from the Convent, surely the Pope's mandate is all-sufficient.

But, be it what it may, in the hands of my faithful Knight and of my trusted friend, the Bishop, I may safely leave it.