I'm bent on all sorts of discoveries, you know!--I want to dive 'deeper than ever plummet sounded'!" "You will only find deeper depths!" said Don Aloysius, slowly--"And in the very deepest depth of all is God!" There was a sudden hush as he spoke.

He went on in gentle accents.
"How wonderful it is that He should be THERE,--and yet HERE! No one need 'dive deep' to find Him.

He is close to us as our very breathing! Ah!" and he sighed--"I am sorry for all the busy 'discoverers'-- they will never arrive at the end,--and meanwhile they miss the clue--the little secret by the way!" Another pause ensued.

Then Morgana spoke, in a very quiet and submissive tone.
"Dear Don Aloysius, you are a 'religious' as they say--and naturally you mistrust all seekers of science--science which is upsetting to your doctrine." Aloysius raised a deprecating hand.
"My child, there is no science that can upset the Source of all science! The greatest mathematician that lives did not institute mathematics--he only copies the existing Divine law." "That is perfectly true"-- said the Marchese Rivardi--"But la Signora Royal means that the dogma of the Church is in opposition to scientific discovery--" "I have not found it so"-- said Don Aloysius, tranquilly--"We have believed in what you call your 'wireless telephony'-- for centuries;--when the Sanctus bell rings at Mass, we think and hope a message from Our Lord comes to every worshipper whose soul is 'in tune' with the heavenly current; that is one of your 'scientific discoveries'-- and there are hundreds of others which the Church has incorporated through a mystic fore-knowledge and prophetic instinct.
No--I find nothing upsetting in science,--the only students who are truly upset both physically and morally, are they who seek to discover God while denying His existence." There followed a silence.

The group in the loggia seemed for the moment mesmerised by the priest's suave calm voice, steady eyes and noble expression, A bell rang slowly and sweetly--a call to prayer in some not far distant monastery, and the first glimmer of the stars began to sparkle faintly in the darkening heavens.