You will never persuade me that we could all have been deceived.

Not we, indeed; No, no; Had the noise been merely created by fancy ....' 'Hark! Hark!' interrupted Virginia in a voice of terror; 'God preserve us! There it is again!' The Nuns clasped their hands together, and sank upon their knees.
Lorenzo looked round him eagerly, and was on the point of yielding to the fears which already had possessed the Women.

Universal silence prevailed.

He examined the Vault, but nothing was to be seen.

He now prepared to address the Nuns, and ridicule their childish apprehensions, when his attention was arrested by a deep and long-drawn groan.
'What was that ?' He cried, and started.
'There, Segnor!' said Helena; 'Now you must be convinced! You have heard the noise yourself! Now judge, whether our terrors are imaginary.