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Then she was terrified at what she had done ; and next her heart smote her bitterly ; and she wept sore apart ; but , being what she was , dared not own it , but said to herself , `` I 'll not say a word , but I 'll make it up to him . '' And her bowels yearned over her son , and her feeble violence died a natural death , and she was transferring her fatal alliance to Gerard when the two black sheep came in . Gerard knew nothing of the immediate cause ; on the contrary , inexperienced as he was in the ins and outs of females , her kindness made him ashamed of a suspicion he had entertained that she was the depredator , and he kissed her again and again , and went to bed happy as a prince to think his mother was his mother once more at the very crisis of his fate . The next morning , at ten o'clock , Gerard and Margaret were in the church at Sevenbergen , he radiant with joy , she with blushes . Peter was also there , and Martin Wittenhaagen , but no other friend . Secrecy was everything . Margaret had declined Italy .