It was he who had drugged Red Eve and read the mass of marriage over her while she was drugged.
"Who are you ?" asked Murgh in his light, cold voice.

"By your shaven head a priest, I think--one who serves some God of love and mercy.

And yet you come upon this ill errand as a captain of assassins.

Why do you seek to do murder, O Priest of the God of mercy ?" Now some power seemed to drag the answer from Father Nicholas.
"Because I must," he said.

"I have sold myself and must pay the price.
Step leads to step, and he who runs may not stop upon them." "No, priest Nicholas, since ever they grow more narrow and more steep.
Yet at the foot of them is the dark abyss, and, Murderer Nicholas, you have reached the last of all your steps.