[Re-enter Pepin.]

PEPIN.

Good even.
Well, my fair sister, you have heard the news,
Wept [glancing at Marcomir]
and found consolation.
But to think
The son of Charles Martel should be a monk!

GENEVIVA.

A monk!—a pilgrim?

PEPIN.

No, a cloistered monk.

MARCOMIR.

What is his crime?

PEPIN.