The case was different.

The aged scholar, too, had been cared for as he could not have been cared for elsewhere, and, in the event of an inquiry being made, he could be produced at any moment, and would even afford a brilliant example of Unorna's charitable doings.

But Beatrice was a stranger and a person of some importance in the world.

The Cardinal Archbishop himself had directed the nuns to receive her, and they were responsible for her safety.

To spirit her away in the night would be a dangerous thing.