Juanita will never get outside the convent gates unless we drag her from them--half against her own will." "We can give her the choice.

We have certain rights." "No rights," replied Sarrion, "that the Church will recognise, and the Church holds her now within its grip." "She is only a child.

She does not know what life means." "Exactly so," Sarrion exclaimed, "and that makes their plan all the easier of execution.

They can bring pressure to bear upon her assiduously and quite kindly so that she will be brought to see that her only chance of happiness is the veil.

Few men, and no women at all, can be happy in a life of their own choosing if they are assured by persons in daily intercourse with them--persons whom they respect and love--that in living that life they will assuredly be laying up for themselves an eternity of damnation.