Luther’s central role in all of this is often forgotten. He was not merely the recipient of nine escaped nuns—one until death do them part—but he was the one who had managed the details of their genuinely dangerous escape, knowing that if it was successful, it would be a dramatic victory over the forces of darkness and a bold defiance of the devil and his various henchmen such as Duke George, who must have been steaming indeed when he realized what had just taken place.
