At the least I have lived, and for some few hours I have been wife and mother, and it is as well to die swiftly in this cell that your mercy has prepared, as more slowly in those above.

And now for you--I tell you that your wickedness shall find you out, you who dare to say to God's children--"Ye shall not love," and to work murder on them because they will not listen.

It shall find you out I say, and not only you but the Church you serve.

Both priest and Church shall be broken together and shall be a scorn in the mouths of men to come.' 'She is distraught,' said the Dominican as a sigh of fear and wonder went round the vault, 'and blasphemes in her madness.

Forget her words.
Shrive her, brother, swiftly ere she adds to them.' Then the black-robed, keen-eyed priest came to her, and holding the cross before her face, began to mutter I know not what.