They call her a Witch--and indeed I think it is the only name for her." "I do not believe in witches," said Beatrice, a little scornfully.

"But whatever she is, she is bad.

I do not know what it was that she wanted me to do in the church, upon the altar there--it was something horrible.
Thank God you came in time! What could it have been, I wonder ?" Sister Paul shook her head sorrowfully, but said nothing.

She knew no more than Beatrice of Unorna's intention, but she believed in the existence of a Black Art, full of sacrilegious practices, and credited Unorna vaguely with the worst designs which she could think of, though in her goodness she was not able to imagine anything much worse than the saying of a _Pater Noster_ backwards in a consecrated place.

But she preferred to say nothing, lest she should judge Unorna unjustly.