Now the Dominican motioned to all to take the places where they had stood before and asked her: 'Erring sister, have you aught to say before you are silent for ever ?' 'Yes,' she answered in a clear, sweet voice, that never even quavered, so bold had she become since she learned that her death would be swift and easy.

'Yes, I have this to say, that I go to my end with a clean heart, for if I have sinned it is against custom and not against God.
I broke the vows indeed, but I was forced to take those vows, and, therefore, they did not bind.

I was a woman born for light and love, and yet I was thrust into the darkness of this cloister, there to wither dead in life.

And so I broke the vows, and I am glad that I have broken them, though it has brought me to this.

If I was deceived and my marriage is no marriage before the law as they tell me now, I knew nothing of it, therefore to me it is still valid and holy and on my soul there rests no stain.