“What did you do?”
“Brother Danveld came to me and gave me the kiss of the Order; but I, thinking that he was doing it from pure license, raised my wicked hand against him——”
Here she began to strike her breast and repeated several times:
“God, be merciful to me, a sinner!”
“What happened then?” asked Danusia.
“Immediately my hand became motionless, and from that moment I have been crippled. I was young and stupid—I did not know! But I was punished. If a woman fears that a brother of the Order wishes to do something wicked, she must leave the judgment to God, but she must not resist herself, because whosoever contradicts the Order or a brother of the Order, that one will feel God’s anger!”
Danusia listened to these words with fright and uneasiness; the sister began to sigh and to com
