s purely out of love. A woman, who has never told a lie ever in her entire life, told the ultimate sin to save her husband. This was the first sign of love towards her husband she showed in a long time; Elizabeth knew it as well as John. " 'Answer my questions! Is your husband a lecher!' 'No, sir'... 'Elizabeth, I have confessed it...She only thought to save my name!'" (p. 105) Any loving wife, who was straight in her mind, would tell a lie to save her husband, as Elizabeth tried to do in the courtroom. Yet for a human being who has never committed a sin, which includes lying, this must have been extremely difficult to do, regardless if it meant to save a life or not. Elizabeth's moral values were at stake when she lied, this includes everything she has ever believed in and everything she had faith in, and not to mention the example she was setting for her children. This just proves that she, in fact, loved John, maybe even more then she loved her religion and her values, regardless of how she showed her love to John in the past. "John, I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, no honest love could come to me! Suspicion kissed you when I did; I never knew how I s
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