Thacia
disguises herself as a man so that Joel
can gather information. Daniel accompanies her to town
so they can be seen,
thus taking suspicion off of Joel. While there, Daniel suggests waiting for
Jesus to appear so they can listen to one of his sermons; Thacia refuses, claiming that
she
doesn't want to risk giving themselves away. After a little while, Daniel
presses her on the
issue, and she gives this explanation.
"It's just
that I don't want to face Jesus with a
lie. I couldn't bear the way his eyes would look at
me."
"If he understood the reason he wouldn't blame
you."
"Yes, I think he would," she said thoughfully. "I
think that for
Jesus a lie is impossible, no matter what the reason."
(Speare,
, Google Books)
In other
words,
Thacia doesn't want to show her human fallibility, knowing that the
reaction would be sympathy,
but also pity. She doesn't want to be pitied for
doing something she considers morally correct,
even though she knows that she
is breaking laws to do it. Her "lie" of dressing like a
man to decieve others
is enough to make her ashamed -- not of the action itself, but of being
discovered in the action -- and so she doesn't want to expose herself to
pity.
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