"Yes, yes, oh, pray for me; be not weary, her judgment is pronounced."
"What mean you?" spake the abbess, "whose judgment hath been pronounced?"
Illa.—"Know you not, then? Sidonia's."
Hæc.—"How could she have bewitched you? She is far from here."
Illa.—"Spirits know no distance."
Hæc.—"How then hath she done this?"
Illa.—"Her spirit Chim summoned another spirit last evening, who entered into me as I gasped for air, after that strife between you and your maid, for I was shocked to hear this faithful creature called a thief."
Hæc.—"And is she not a thief?"
Illa.—"In no wise. She is as innocent as a new-born child."
Hæc.—"But there was no one else in the chamber when I laid down my purse, and when she went away it was gone."