The prefect therefore carried Polyxena to the city where he stayed, and ordered her to be shut up in a chamber.
2And one of the soldiers seized Rebecca, but the maid secretly escaping fled into the house of an old woman, who received the maiden kindly and entreated her well.
3And sitting down she wept, saying, Alas, my sister Polyxena, I wretched one did not think that anyone was oppressed like myself, but now I am persuaded and know that all my misfortunes and tribulations do not compare with one day of yours.
4And most grievous of all, behold I have been separated from you and am again a captive, but search for me even into the next world, my sister Polyxena.
5The old woman said to her, What ails you, daughter, that you weep thus bitterly?
6Rebecca said, Allow me, mother, to be distressed and to lament the great and incurable pain of my heart.
7The old woman greatly compassionating her wept exceedingly, for the maid had told her all that had happened to her, and how through Polyxena she had believed in Christ.
8So too Polyxena, shut up in the chamber, said, Woe is me, wretched one; alas for me miserable one; now I know clearly how the devil hates virginity, but O Lord Jesus Christ, God of all, since I dare not beseech you of myself, I bring to you the prayers of your holy preacher Paul, that you may not suffer my virginity to be destroyed by any one.