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PRIEST:
This is hardly the place to discussion that, Professor.
Who knows but that, at the bottom of her soul, which
God alone can see, just in these last moments, there is
the longing to free herself from sin by a deathbed
confession.
BERNH:
Must I repeat it once more, your Revenue? The patient
does not know that the end is hear. She is pay, happy — –.
and unrepentant.
FRIEST
All the greater would be my sin if I moved away from
this threshold without having ministered to the dying
Roman the consolations of our holy Religion.
BERNH:
From this sin God, and every earthly judge would declare
your Revenue absolved. (in answer to the Priest’s
movement of impatience) Yes, your Revenue. For I,
as physical, cannot permit pou to.approach the bed of this
patient.
PRIEST:
I was called here. I must therefore beg
BERNH:
Not by my orders, your Revenue. And I can only
repeat that I, as Doctor, to whom the well of his
patient is entravted till the last hour, must, unfortunately,
forbid you to cross that threshold.
PRIEST:
(Taking a step forward) You forbid me?
BERNH:
(Noch hie shoulder lightly)Kes, your Revenue.
SISTER:
(Hurnying out of the ward) Your Revenue......