Antonia should remain a Prisoner in the dungeon.

He approached her with confusion painted on his countenance. He raised
her from the ground. Her hand trembled, as He took it, and He dropped
it again as if He had touched a Serpent. Nature seemed to recoil at
the touch. He felt himself at once repulsed from and attracted towards
her, yet could account for neither sentiment. There was something in
her look which penetrated him with horror; and though his understanding
was still ignorant of it, Conscience pointed out to him the whole
extent of his crime. In hurried accents yet the gentlest He could find,
while his eye was averted, and his voice scarcely audible, He strove to
console her under a misfortune which now could not be avoided. He
declared himself sincerely penitent, and that He would gladly shed a
drop of his blood, for every tear which his barbarity had forced from
her. Wretched and hopeless, Antonia listened to him in silent grief:
But when He announced her confinement in the Sepulchre, that dreadful
doom to which even death seemed preferable roused her from her
insensibility at once. To linger out a life of misery in a narrow
loathsome Cell, known to exist by no human Being save her Ravisher,
surrounded by mouldering Corses, breathing the pestilential air of
corruption, never more to behold the light, or drink the pure gale of
heaven, the idea was more terrible than She could support. It conquered
even her abhorrence of the Friar. Again She sank upon her knees: She
besought his compassion in terms the most pathetic and urgent. She
promised, would He but restore her to liberty, to conceal her injuries
from the world; to assign any reason for her reappearance which He
might judge proper; and in order to prevent the least suspicion from
falling upon him, She offered to quit Madrid immediately. Her
entreaties were so urgent as to make a considerable impression upon the
Monk. He reflected that as her person no longer excited his desires,
He had no interest in keeping her concealed as He had at first
intended; that He was adding a fresh injury to those which She had
already suffered; and that if She adhered to her promises, whether She
was confined or at liberty, his life and reputation were equally
secure. On the other hand, He trembled lest in her affliction Antonia
should unintentionally break her engagement; or that her excessive
simplicity and ignorance of deceit should permit some one more artful
t