quoth the abbess, interrupting her: They are sinful in the first degree, answered _Margarita_, --they are mortal--and if we are ravish'd and die unabsolved of them, we shall both----but you may pronounce them to me, quoth the abbess of _Andoillets_ ----They cannot, my dear mother, said the novice, be pronounced at all; they will make all the blood in one's body fly up into one's face --But you may whisper them in my ear, quoth the abbess.

 they are sinful in the first degree - a mortal sin - and if we are ravished and die unabsolved, we shall-'
'But you may tell them to me,' interrupted the abbess.
'They cannot, my dear mother, be spoken at all; they will make one's blood fly up into one's face.'
'But you may whisper them in my ear,' quoth the abbess.
