- That's true, and that's what I told your parents when they came to find me. But seeing them so worried and confused, plus being pressed by their pleas, I finally gave in to their prayers and came here to try to convince you to stop this mess. They really believe that I still have that kind of influence on you.
- How big of a mind," Ariadne wryly quipped. Because you think you owe a moral debt to my beloved parents, you decided to come all the way to this lamentable place, as you all so aptly put it, in order to help a poor woman like me overcome the treachery that the man she loved had done to her.