"And what is not natural cannot be right." "And is all right that is natural ?" asked Unorna thoughtfully.
"It is not natural," repeated the other.

"How do you do it?
Do you use strange words and herbs and incantations ?" Unorna laughed again, but the nun seemed shocked by her levity and she forced herself to be grave.
"No, indeed!" she answered.

"I look into their eyes and tell them to sleep--and they do.

Poor Sister Paul! You are behind the age in the dear old convent here.

The thing is done in half of the great hospitals of Europe every day, and men and women are cured in that way of diseases that paralyse them in body as well as in mind.