On her replying that she did not know a single word, he held the pyx before her and ordered her to swear by the holy sacrament.

She resisted at first, saying loud enough for those around her to hear-- "My father, you make me take such solemn oaths that I fear God will punish me." To this Barre replied-- "My daughter, you must swear for the glory of God." And she took the oath.
Just then one of the bystanders remarked that the mother superior was in the habit of interpreting the Catechism to her scholars.

This she denied, but acknowledged that she used to translate the Paternoster and the Creed for them.

As the superior felt herself becoming somewhat confused at this long series of embarrassing questions, she decided on going into convulsions again, but with only moderate success, for the bailiff insisted that the exorcists should ask her where Grandier was at that very moment.

Now, as the ritual teaches that one of the proofs of possession is the faculty of telling, when asked, where people are, without seeing them, and as the question was propounded in the prescribed terms, she was bound to answer, so she said that Grandier was in the great hall of the castle.
"That is not correct," said the bailiff, "for before coming here I pointed out a house to Grandier and asked him to stay in it till I came back.