You understand, Madame, that I have been a Professor of Theology; that my Faculty can remove me--that my Faculty obeys the Bishops, and the Bishops obey the Holy See.

I remembered this place--I left my address in Rome--and I came down here to wait.

Ah! it was not long!' He drew himself up, smiling bitterly.
'Two days after I arrived here I received two letters simultaneously--one from my Bishop, the other from the Council of my Faculty--suspending me both from my priestly and my academical functions.

By the next post arrived a communication from the Bishop of this diocese, forbidding me the Sacraments.' He paused.

The mere recital of his case had brought him again into the bewilderment of that mental anguish he had gone through.