How had it come so that she feared to share what she knew with Seymour? She both loved and feared him, a distressing situation. There was a divide between what she knew to be the truth and still the burning desire she had above all else to protect him and see him loved and accepted in turn.

After a prolonged silence, she finally confirmed, "I have spoken with her. She does not know." But others did, and she was not intending to reveal it. Hopefully, he would never have need or opportunity to know. "Unless you have told her otherwise, she does not know the workings of a fayth. I felt it was too heavy a burden to lay upon an innocent child."

She had laid that burden on a child once, and look what it wrought.