The saying of the leper was very dreadful to me, for I thought, here is a man punished by God indeed, but so near death as to be likely familiar with the secrets of death.

Such a one cannot be a liar, nor would he speak idly who has so little time left to pray in.

Therefore I urged my lord Richard by his good love for me to forgo his purpose of wedding me in Poictiers.

But he would not listen, but said that, as he had stolen me from my betrothed, it comported not with his honour to dishonour me.
So he wedded me, and fulfilled both terms of the leper's prophecy.

Then I saw myself in peril, and was not at all comforted by the advice of certain nuns, which was that, although I had lain in the Count's bed, I had not lain, but had knelt, in the Count's cap; and that therefore the terms were not fulfilled.