What a shock for Desdemona, to hear that the one person who can prove her innocence has confessed to a false crime and is dead!
A person baptised as a child will later confess the baptism, at the age of 14-16, by confirmation.
A third person then confessed that she and the male confederate had actually committed the fatal crime.
"Formal confession is when a person comes and confesses his sins with no public purpose," he said.
The letter says one of the six murdered Milan, and if that person does not confess, all of them will be dead by midnight.
He says that the person who poisoned Marfa has confessed.
If a person humbles himself and confesses to his sin, he'll always be welcome back in the church.
It was not every day a Plain person confessed to murder.
The priest can close off the other compartment by a sliding screen so that only one person will be confessing at a time.
Oh, and don't forget that the different person is confessing to both crimes.