sentences:  The irritated Mathias criticizes her as a Gorgon and the Fury Tisiphone — but when Sophia produces the humiliated courtiers Ubaldo and Ricardo from their laborious incarceration, Mathias and the visitors get the point of her behavior.When Sophia asks to be freed of her marriage vows to enter a nunnery, Mathias confesses his error and all appeal to her to forgive him.She acquiesces.