Who is she?
What brings her into retreat at this time of year ?" "Poor thing--yes, she is very unhappy," answered Sister Paul.

"It is a sad story, so far as I have heard it.

Her father is just dead, and she is alone in the world.

The Abbess received a letter yesterday from the Cardinal Archbishop, requesting that we would receive her, and this morning she came.

His eminence knew her father, it appears.