At last she asked:
"Walpurga, if your religion was different from Hansei's, would you go to his church?"
"Why, Hansei's Catholic, as well as I am."
"But if it were otherwise?"
"But it isn't otherwise."
"But just imagine it were."
"But I can't do that," said she, as if about to cry.
The queen was again silent for some time. Presently Walpurga, of her own accord, said:
"Yes, I can, after all. I've thought it out. Why, you're Lutheran and your husband's Catholic. But why do you ask me that?"
"Imagine yourself in my position. If you were a Protestant, would you not visit your husband's church?"