Confess to the minister of God.

I also have sinned and been sorry.

Yet after came forgiveness and the unbound heart." Then the Lady Sybilla ceased quickly and looked up, as it had been, smiling.

Yet she was not smiling as maidens are wont to smile.
"Pretty innocent," she said, "you mean well, but you know not what the word 'sin' means to such as I.Confess--absolve! Not even the Holy One and the Just could give me that.

I tell you I have eaten of the apple of the knowledge of good and evil--yes, the very core I have eaten.