I strove to speak, but could not, for fear and wonder tied my tongue.

And indeed she gave me short time to think.
"I tell you I love him, as he loves me," she continued, her voice trembling upon the rising cadence, "with all my whole being.

Tell him so.

Tell him he must save me, and that only he can: that for his sake I am tortured, and scorned, and disgraced, and sold; my body thrown to dogs, and worse than dogs; my soul given over to devils that tempt me to kill and be free,--by my own father, for his sake.

Tell him that these hands he kissed are wasted with wringing small pains from each other, but the greater pain drives them to do worse.