"And going myself to church, I might easily be known."
"That is very likely."
"Perhaps ... to-morrow ... no, for it is already too late, and I could not in so short a time collect myself, and truly examine my soul...."
"Of course, in such a short time you would not be able to remember all your sins...."
"What do you know about my sins? And what, and how many they are? Who told you that it would be difficult for me to remember them?"
Lady Lucrezia, with too great a desire of pleasing her mistress, according to the usual habit, assented where she ought to have doubted.
The most wary courtier sometimes falls into this error; but if he grazes the boundary line, he rarely stumbles so as to break his legs.
Lady Lucrezia might have answered:
"Eh! my Lady! If I covered my face with my hands, know that I happened to peep through the fingers, and saw more than enough."
But, you may imagine, that even if she had the power to conceive such thoughts, she would have put them aside, as temptations of the devil!