Chapter 34 Summary

Fra Murta has removed Palinor from his cell, which he realizes is in a friary. Palinor is afraid. Palinor is taken to the torture room, and a scribe sits nearby poised to write.

Sor Agnete questions whether they should let Amara go, because the nuns don't know where she could go. Severo has said the wolf-child can be freed. The abbess whispers that they should contact Jaime.

Esperanca is dismayed to learn that Palinor did not go home after his rescue and instead was imprisoned. She is less welcome in the town's houses now that her future riches are not to be, and people are making remarks about heretics and the dangers of dealing with them. Esperanca questions how someone so kind and lordly could be one who eats babies and makes cattle sick. She says she'll never believe that Palinor is a...