"If it please you, let's go there," said the viscount, "and if she's a lady or a maiden who needs help, let's give it to her if we can, because it's our obligation under the 'laws of chivalry.'" They went to the garden gate, and heard the loud laments coming from inside the garden, but they could not understand what was being said or recognize the voice: with all the pain she was in, her voice was altered. The viscount said: "Let's break down the gate. It's night, and no one will know we did it." But the gate was unlocked, because during the night, not imagining that so much harm would be done, Plaerdemavida had left it that way so that Tirant could open it easily whenever he liked. And they both pushed against the gate with all their might, and it flew open easily. The viscount went in first and walked toward the voice which sounded so strange. The viscount said: "Whoever you are, I beg you in God's name, tell me if you're an errant spirit or a mortal body who needs help." Tirant thought it must be the emperor and his men, and so that he would not be recognized, and they would leave, he disguised his voice, even though the pain he was in had already disguised it, and he said: "In my time I was a baptized Christian, and I am condemned to wander because of my sins. I am an invisible spirit, and if you see me, the reason will be that I am taking on form. The evil spirits here are stripping off my flesh and my bones and throwing them in the air piece by piece. Oh, what a cruel torture I am suffering. If you come any closer to me, you will share in my pain." They were very frightened when they heard these words, and they made the sign of the cross and recited the Gospel of Saint John. The viscount spoke so loudly that Tirant heard him: "Hippolytus, do you think we should go to our chambers and get all our armed men and some holy water, and then come back here to see what this is?" "No," said Hippolytus, "we don't need to go back to our chambers for anything. We both have the sign of the cross on our swords: let me go there." When Tirant heard the viscount call Hippolytus' name, he said: "If you are Hippolytus, a native of France, come to me and have no fear." Then Hippolytus took out his sword, and holding the handle in front of him, he made the sign of the cross and said: "As a true Christian, I fully believe in the articles of the Catholic faith, and everything that the holy Roman church teaches: in this holy faith I want to live and die." He went closer in great fear, but the viscount was even more afraid, and did not dare to approach. And in a soft voice Tirant called to him and said: "Come closer. I am Tirant." At that he became even more frightened, and was ready to go back. Tirant saw this, and raising his voice he said: "Oh, what a cowardly knight you are!" Hippolytus recognized him when he spoke, and ran up to him and said: "Oh, my lord, is it you? What misfortune brought you here?"