After its departure, I stayed on ten or twelve days, working up the subject in every detail.

My book is the story of such a national pilgrimage, and is, accordingly, the story of five days.

It is divided into five parts, each of which parts is limited to one day.
"There are from ninety to one hundred characters in the story: sick persons, pilgrims, priests, nuns, hospitallers, nurses, and peasants; and the book shows Lourdes under every aspect.

There are the piscinas, the processions, the Grotto, the churches at night, the people in the streets.

It is, in one word, Lourdes in its entirety.