"Let truth be told..."

Soon after Hero regained conscienceness, she was secretly led by Friar to a nunnery, where she awaited for her conspirators to be found out and brought to her father. While in the nunnery she shared in the fellowship of the nuns. She was treated as though she were a nun herself. Hero was all so grateful to be in the company of such caring women. None of the sisters knew why she was there at first. Until one evening, as they all sat around a table having dinner in the cathedrals dining hall, Hero after a few bits of her meal suddenly stopped and began to tear. The nuns around her wondered why she was crying as they comforted her. After a few minutes, while most of the sisters in the room remained quiet, Hero began to talk about the humiliating and hurtful experience she had, at what was suppose to be one of the best days of her life (her wedding):

"I can't believe God can allow such a thing to happen at the hands of the people I trust must!..."

The nuns near her looked at each other with puzzled, wondering would Hero could be referring to.

"About a week ago I was set to marry my beloved lord Claudio but we did not..." She closes her eyes in disappointment and after a few seconds of being silent a sister asks her why didn't she marry. At first it seemed difficult for Hero to answer the nun but eventually she did. It wasn't easy to have to recount what was said and done but she pushed herself to speak.

"I, I...I didn't marry because my beloved accused me of being impure with another man."

The nuns were taken back by what she said. Then Hero continued to explain herself so that the sisters wouldn't get the wrong idea as her father did.

"But it's not true. He claims to have seem me one night in my bedroom window with a scoundrel. I tried to explain to him how it isn't so but he didn't believe me. Neither did his friend, prince Pedro and my father. How much it broke my heart to hear my beloved make such accusations on a day in which the only words I would expect him to say to me are "I do." Besides what Claudio and Pedro might think of me, there was nothing more hurtful than hearing my father say, "Doesn't anyone have a dagger's point for me?" To know that my father wants to take his life away on my account was like a nightmare coming true."

The nuns were appalled by what they heard. One sister even began to cry silently to herself.

"All my life I have tried to honor my father but in one day all my good deeds and name has been taken away from under me. Up until that day, I wondered what married life would be like. I wondered how many children I would have with Claudio and what they would grow up to be. I was living in a fantasy and not reality has awoken me."

One nun asked her what she planned to do now with her life?

"Father Frair has a plan on how to clear my name. Thanks to him and a few others, my father now believes that I've been set up. So in the mean time he has asked me to stay hear until my 'true' accusers can be found and arrested. I know that God will raise me up to the height from which I've fallen from. As it says the in the good book, 'you reap what you sow.' I've honored my father in every way possible and God will soon honor me."

In hearing this the sisters all chants, "Amen!"