And then I went back weeping to the gate and they with me. And I went out but this was against my will. And they shut the gate behind me and I went back by the path on which I had come as far as the chamber and when the devils met me they fled before me as if they greatly feared me. And the torments could not harm me or do me any harm until I was in the chamber where I had passed at first. And the twelve men who had spoken with me at my going came to meet me and greatly praised Our Lord who had strengthened and held me in that strong and holy resolve. And there came my companion whom I had not seen since my entry. On account of the ill he had experienced he was much weakened and, by the grace of God, I helped him to come out. Then they said to me:
‘You are free of all the sins you have committed and you must return at daybreak to your land because, if the prior were not to find you or those who are there to come and seek you at the gate, they would doubt of your return and turn back.’
And then we made the sign of the cross and they blessed us and we made as much haste as we could and advanced far enough without finding an end nor did we know where we were. For this reason I and my companion were much afraid and disturbed, thinking that we were shut in. And then we began to pray devoutly to God who had freed and delivered us from so many great dangers that he should wish to free and deliver us from this one, so that we would not perish. Being thus besieged by prayer and the travail which we had endured, with the anguish which anyone can imagine, we fell asleep; and being thus asleep there came a great thunderclap — but it was not as great as the first one and at once we woke up and I and my companion were much afraid and we found ourselves at the gate through which we had entered to the first pit. And being there, doubting where those were who had put us in and should come from the monastery to seek us, we were at the gate and as soon as they had opened it they saw us coming out from there. And we were received with much joy and at once they put us in the church where we said our prayers and gave thanks to God as he had taught us.