“What is that to me? I am not one of you.”
“You will do well, sister, to submit to the inevitable.”
“And what if I do not?”
“Then they will force you to submit.”
“Force me, Marie of Chafleur! I should like to hear how they propose to do it.”
“I can tell you, sister. They will lock you in your cell and let you go half starved.”
“Well, I would rather wholly starve than take the vow.”
“They will thrust you into a gloomy prison.”
“Go on.”
“They will come daily to your prison and punish you without mercy.”