I went back to Fatima on 19 October to see the children and speak with them. With us went a priest* who had already interrogated them several times, and those interrogations are most interesting.
Voltei á Fatima no dia 19 de Outubro, fui vêr as creanças e fallar com ellas. Foi comnosco um sacerdote que já por vezes as tinha interrogado, sendo interessantissimos esses interrogatorios.
Unlike some people, I liked the children immensely; they are robust, healthy, cheerful, frank and likeable, with an ease of manner natural to their age. They did not run away from us, but received us kindly. We were present at a lengthy interrogation of each child separately. They answer frankly, promptly and with the greatest simplicity. Nevertheless one can see that they do not much like being interrogated, that it bores them, and that they answer only because they feel obliged to.
Ao contrario do que succedera a algumas pessôas, agradaram-me immenso as creanças, que são robustas, sadias, alegres, francas e sympathicas, com uma desinvoltura propria da sua edade. Não fugiram de nós, antes nos receberam amavelmente. Assistimos a um demorado interrogatorio, feito a cada creança separadamente. Respondem francamente, promptamente, e com a maior singeleza. No entanto vê-se que gostam pouco de ser interrogadas, que isso as massa, e que só respondem, por se acharem obrigadas a isso.