This makes the matter more puzzling.] She pretended to be dead, and was carried down the stream to a place where she contrived to crawl to land.

Some peasants came by, whose assistance she implored.

But they, observing that she was a nun of S.
Margherita by her dress, refused to house her for the rest of the night.
They gave her a staff to lean on, and after a painful journey she regained the church of the Grazie at early dawn.

Ottavia's wounds upon the head, face, and right hand, inflicted by the stock of Osio's gun, were so serious that after making a clean breast to her judges, she died of them upon December 26, 1607.
When Osio had pushed Ottavia into the Lambro, and had tried to smash her brains out with his harquebuss, he resumed his midnight journey with Sister Benedetta.

They reached an uninhabited house in the country about five or six miles distant from Monza.