"You are looking round you, reflecting, and enlightening yourself.

Well, this is the point.

You are doubtless aware that the great international pilgrimage of the Peter's Pence Fund will arrive in Rome on Friday, and be received on Saturday by his Holiness.

On Sunday, moreover, the Holy Father will celebrate mass at the Basilica.

Well, I have a few cards left, and here are some very good places for both ceremonies." So saying he produced an elegant little pocketbook bearing a gilt monogram and handed Pierre two cards, one green and the other pink.