In silence, I took this in. My enemy had been my teacher’s benefactor. My guardian tormented me with psalms, and later the same verses comforted me. He had carried me away aboard a ship, where I pledged myself to a princely man, his servant. How was life so full of contradictions? Good and evil intermixed—but I could never say that. I could not explain it—nor could I excuse my behavior to one so pious as the Queen.
