Oh, no, no, no, no! I could not bear that you should betray your faith and your country and yourself, and be called traitor for my sake! Not for ten lives of mine shall you ruin yours.

And not because I might love you less if you had done that deed.
God help me! I think I should love you if you committed any crime! The shame is the more to me--I know it.

I am only a woman! But rather than let my love ruin you, make a traitor of you and lose you in this world and the next, my soul shall go first--life, soul, honour, everything! You shall not do it! You think that you love me more than I love you, but you do not.

For to save you as you are, I love you so dearly that I will leave you--leave you to honour, leave you to your King, leave you to the undying glory of the life you have lived, and will live, in memory of my love!" The splendid words rang from her lips like a voice from heaven, and her eyes were divinely lightened.

For they looked up, and not at him, calling Heaven to witness that she would keep her promise.