But Unorna only laughed again.
"Perhaps it is very foolish," said the nun, "but I cannot bear to hear such a thing said of you." "It is not said in earnest.

Do you know why they call me the Witch?
It is very simple.

It is because I can make people sleep--people who are suffering or mad or in great sorrow, and then they rest.

That is all my magic." "You can put people to sleep?
Anybody ?" Sister Paul opened her faded eyes very wide.

"But that is not natural," she added in a perplexed tone.