Then, through the provision of Our Lord Christ Jesus, there came a priest, a good man, out of England into Rome, with another fellowship, speering, and inquiring diligently after the said creature, whom he had never seen before, nor she him.

     But while he was in England, he heard tell that such a woman was in Rome, with whom he longed highly to speak, if God would grant him grace. Wherefore, whilst he was in his own land, he, purposing to see this creature when he, through sufferance of Our Lord, might come where she was, purveyed gold to bring her in her relief, if she had need. Then, by inquiring, he came to the place where she was, and fully humbly and meekly, he called her "Mother," praying for her charity to receive him as her son. She said that he was welcome to God and to her, as to his own mother.

     So by holy dalliance and communication, she felt well that he was a good man. Then she, uncovering the secrets of her heart, revealed what grace God wrought in her soul through His holy inspiration, and somewhat of her manner of life. Then he would no longer suffer her to beg her meat from door to door, but prayed her to eat with him and his fellowship, unless good men and women, in the way of charity and for ghostly comfort, would pray her to meat. Then he would that she should take it in the name of Our Lord; and otherwise she ate with him and his felowship every day and he gave her gold sufficient to come home to England.

     Then was fulfilled what Our Lord said to her a little before: "Gold is to thee-ward."

     And so it was indeed, thanked be Almighty God

     Then some of her fellows whom she had been with in Jerusalem, came to this good priest, newly come to Rome, complaining of her, and saying that she was shriven to a priest who could not understand her language or her confession. Then this good priest, trusting to her as to his mother, desiring the health of her soul, asked her if her confessor understood her when she spoke to him or not.

     "Good son, I beseech you to pray him to dine with you and with your fellows, and let me be present, and then shall ye know your fellows, and let me be present, and then shall ye know the truth."

     Her confessor was prayed to meat, and, when the time came, set and served with this good priest and his fellowship, the said creature being present, the good priest of England chatting and communing in their own language, English.

     The Duche priest, a worthy clerk, as is written before, confessor to the said creature, sat all still in a manner of gloom, because he understood not what they said in English, but only when they spoke Latin. And they did it on purpose, he unwitting, to prove if he understood English or not.

     At the last, the said creature, seeing and well understanding that her confessor understood not their language, and that it was tedious to him, partly to comfort him and partly, or much more, to prove the work of God, told in her language, in English a story of Holy Writ, which she had learned of clerks whilst she was at home in England, for she would speak of no vanity nor of fantasies.

     They asked her confessor if he understood what she had said, and he, anon, in Latin told them the same words that she had said before in English, for he could neither speak English nor understand it, save only from her tongue. And then had they great marvel, for they knew well that he understood what she said, and she understood what he said, and he could understand no other Englishman. So blessed may God be, Who made an alien to understand her, when her own countrymen had forsaken her, and would not hear her confession unless she would leave off her weeping and her speaking of holiness.

     Yet she might not weep but when God gave it her, and oftentimes He gave it so plenteously, that she could not withstand it, but the more she tried to withstand it or put it away, the more strongly it wrought in her soul with such holy thoughts that she could not cease. She would sob and cry full loud, all against her will, so that many a man, and woman also, wondered at her therefor.