"Her attendants think—think—tell me, noble Dionysius, is it true that Chione was ever a Christian?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Because it is important that the Christians should know that, if they have bewitched her in revenge for her leaving them, they must undo the spell at once, or brave my vengeance."
"This much, at least, I may tell you—the Christians have not bewitched her."
"Yet she fainted at some words uttered close to her, and that was the second interruption of the evening."
"My son, you must not make me responsible for the interruptions; I was not present at your meeting."
"No, but some Christians were; that has been ascertained."
"Even so; each one must answer for himself."
"You did not send them there?"