And follow her own guilty way!”
“But dearest,” Peter warmly plead,
“’Twould not be guilty if it led
To our own home and our own love!
Our Holy Mother from Above,
Will pardon us—I know she will—”
And yet the maid responded still,
“I dare not, Peter, disobey,
And follow my own guilty way.”
So thus it chanced that Zelia Dionne