She span on now at her ivory wheel because it was mere mechanical work, which left thought free. The Princess, in lieu of slumbering, looked at her ever and again. Suddenly she gathered her courage and spoke.
'Wanda, you are a Christian woman,' she said slowly and softly. 'Is it Christian never to forgive?'
Her face did not change as she turned the spinning-wheel.
'What is forgiveness?' she said coldly. 'Is it abstinence from vengeance? I have abstained.'
'It is far more than that!'
'Then I do not reach it.'
'No; you do not. That is why I presumed to ask you, is it in consonance with your tenets, with your duties?'
'I think so.'
'Then change your creed,' said the Princess.
A sombre wrath shone in her eyes as she looked up one moment.