text:  After much hesitating she could not conceal from me that she was in this disguise for some special and extraordinary purpose; nevertheless she condescended on no particulars of her state or condition; but when I finally promised to satisfy her demand if it might be done by a Christian gentleman and a poor candidate for the holy ministry she cautioned me not to be startled by whatever I should see and beckoned me to follow her--the which I did in no easy frame of mind