Of course I am not a hero, and if they torture me or serve me laced brandy, I will confess even things that I never did.

He resisted for one week; but the tactics of threats and sweet talk worked well with him, and he confessed even things the Secret Police had no knowledge of.

The friend later regrets her deceit and visits Torresani's house to confess and put things right.

"Visitors feel free to confess things they'd be embarrassed to tell their priest back home," said the Rev. Thomas Frechette, the pastor.

"But, of course, I didn't want you to confess things you didn't do," said Miss Ophelia; "that's telling a lie, just as much as the other."

Why do people have to confess things?

Was it normal to confess things she could never tell anyone else?

But along the way, both rediscover their own lives and histories and confess things to each other that they had hardly admitted to themselves.

You cannot blackmail me into confessing things that are such big, terrible lies.

Critics of his handling of the case said Mr. Perez had been so obsessively intent on catching pedophiles that he had coerced both children and adults into confessing things that had never happened.