From the very edge of death was your father brought back to life and strength.

He would have used that life and that strength to cheat God of the price of His boon to me." "And if," Fra Gervasio questioned almost fiercely, "Agostino in the end should have no vocation, should have no call to such a life ?" She looked at him very wistfully, almost pityingly.

"How should that be ?" she asked.

"He was offered to God.

And that God accepted the gift, He showed when He gave Giovanni back to life.