The priest was no less touched.

He had attended other criminals, but they were men....

To assist to a decent death a beautiful perfumed woman scintillating with precious stones, as though she were going to ride in an automobile to a fashionable tea!...
The week before she had been in doubt as to whether to receive a Calvinist pastor or a Catholic priest.

In her cosmopolitan life of uncertain nationality she had never taken the time to decide about any religion for herself.

Finally she had selected the latter on account of its being more simple intellectually, more liberal and approachable....
Several times when the priest was trying to console her, she interrupted him as though she were the one charged with inspiring courage.
"To die is not so terrible as it appears when seen afar off!...