So she asked my other relations to persuade me to remain.

I yielded to their importunities on condition that they would never interfere with my beliefs.

To accomplish this end they got a priest with whom they were intimate to say that I had changed my views once more, and I did not contradict the report.

It was a great sin on my part, and I deeply repent it.

I must add, however, that whenever anyone has asked me the question your Excellency asked me just now I have always given the same reply." The minister did not seem to take the baron's frankness in bad part; only he remarked, when dismissing him, that he hoped he would find out some way of ridding the kingdom of those who refused to think in religious matters as His Majesty commanded.
D'Aygaliers replied that it was a problem to which he had given much thought, but without ever being able to find a solution, but that he would think about it more earnestly in future.