A Priest and a Philosopher are Two Different Things — The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

The watcher on the north tower is Claude Frollo. The tambourine has drawn him out, and in all Paris he sees only the dancing gypsy. A man in red and yellow sits with her goat. Claude has always seen her alone. Going down, he finds Quasimodo at the bell chamber, gazing out with a tender look. On the square the dancer is gone, called into the house opposite. The man in red and yellow is Pierre Gringoire, holding a chair in his teeth for coins. At Claude's voice the load falls, and Gringoire follows him into the dark church.

Gringoire blames hunger for the costume, and says the dancer is his wife. Claude seizes him. The poet swears he has never touched her. The marriage is an empty rite, and an amulet, she believes, will find her parents only while she stays a virgin. She fears the sacked nun and a priest. Gringoire calls the goat's spelling of Phœbus a harmless trick, perhaps a name for the sun. Claude makes him swear again. When the poet admits he once tried, and once peeped through the keyhole, the priest sends him to the devil and strides off into the dark.