Madame Levet having read the Gospel again and again desired to see the man who had first led her to know it. She sent for him. Froment crossed the Rhone, for she lived at the foot of the bridge, on the side of St. Gervais. He entered, and when she saw him Claudine rose in emotion, approached him, and being unable to speak burst into tears. 'Her tears,' says the evangelist, 'fell on the floor,' she had no other language. When she recovered, Madame Levet courteously begged Froment to sit down, and told him how God had opened to her the door of heaven. At the same time she showed herself determined to profess without fear before men the faith that caused her happiness. 'Ah!' she said, 'can I ever thank God sufficiently for having enlightened me?' Froment had come to strengthen this lady and he was himself strengthened. He was in great admiration at 'hearing her speak as she did.'[585] A conversion so spiritual and so serious must needs have a great signification for the Reformation of Geneva, and as Calvin says in other circumstances where also only one woman seems to have been converted: 'From this tiny shoot an excellent church was to spring.'[586] [561] 'Obscuritatem nominis præsidio futuram, Deum itineri ducem et cœpto patronum.'—Spanheim, _Geneva restituta_, p. 47. [562] Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 12. [563] Badollet MS. in Berne library, _Hist. Helv._ [564] Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 13. [565] Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 13. [566] 'Cum jam pedem ex urbe efferret, nescio qua vi humana majore, se vel reluctantem revocari sensit.'—Spanheim, _Geneva rest._ p. 47; Froment, _Gestes_, p. 13. [567] The sign of the Golden Cross is still on the house, but it was not an inn, as some assert. [568] Froment, _Gestes_, p. 14. [569] Ibid. [570] Froment, _Gestes_, p. 14. [571] Ibid. [572] Froment, _Gestes_, p. 14. [573] 'Nous verrons ce que c'est qu'il dit.'—Froment, _Gestes_, p. 14. [574] 'A viris et fœminis certatim ad Fromentium itum.'—Spanheim, _Geneva restit._ p. 48. [575] Calvin, _passim_. [576] Badollet MS. in Berne library, _Hist. Helv._ [577] Froment, _Gestes_, pp. 14-15. [578] Council Registers, 31 Dec. 1532. [579] Froment, _Gestes_, p. 13. [580] 'And some of them consorted with Paul and Silas, and of the chief women not a few.'—Acts xvii. 4. [581] Galiffe, _Notices Généalogiques_, I. p. 446. [582] 'Recente verbena tempora vincta, cera virginea pectus munita.'—Spanheim, _Geneva restit._ p. 50. [583] 'Embabuynée,' Froment, _Gestes_, p. 16. [584] Froment, _Gestes_, p. 16; Gautier MS. [585] Froment, _Gestes_, p. 16. [586] Calvin on Lydia, Acts xvi. 14. CHAPTER XI. FORMATION OF THE CHURCH. FRIENDS AND OPPONENTS. (MIDDLE TO THE END OF DEC. 1532.)