"When will Sir John come back so we get married?" Alexa wondered, pulling the blanket over herself in Philomena's best cabin.
Archbishop Giotto Albizzi promised to ask the Catholic Pope for permission for this wedding, in secret not to warn of Alexa's situation and location until everything was fully resolved. The marriage could not be performed immediately in the face of the complex situation of the maiden, recently declared excommunicated with her baptismal name, by the two Churches.
The Archbishop looked like a good man, unlike her first judgemental thoughts, and perhaps that was why Rinaldo wanted to destroy Archbishop Albizzi so vigorously.
The maiden closed her eyes, thinking of her fiance, but it was the image of Prince Magnus that came to her mind. Alexa shook her head in disgust, and that's when Nerissa, the maid, began to snore heavily in the upper bed.
