#315668 - Come, said one of my companions, let's go watch a truly humorous fellow. At that morning's breakfast inspection tour, her duenna affirmed she had the previous evening caught the child in a prayerful attitude, flagrantly on her knees before retiring; Zelmire was summoned, questioned, she was asked the subject of her prayers; she at first refused to answer, then, threats having been employed, she fell to weeping and admitted she had besought God to deliver her from the perils wherewith she was beset, and had above all prayed that help would come before her virginity were lost. He shuts the door, goes straight to the pot he knows to be brimming with the goodies he has ordered for his sport.