57/67 Merely anxious and intreating, she dragged herself on her knees towards the priest. She did not flee before God's holy name. She reproached him with having suspected her: "It was wrong of him," she said to her hostess, "for, having heard my confession, he ought to have known me."[411] [Footnote 411: _Trial_, vol.ii, p. 446.] She would have thanked the priest of Vaucouleurs had she known how he was furthering the fulfilment of her mission by subjecting her to this ordeal. |