This interview took place in the presence of our principal Relations.

It was for the first time since her childhood that I saw her, and the scene was most affecting.

She threw herself upon my bosom, kissed me, and wept bitterly.

By every possible argument, by tears, by prayers, by kneeling, I strove to make her abandon her intention.

I represented to her all the hardships of a religious life; I painted to her imagination all the pleasures which She was going to quit, and besought her to disclose to me, what occasioned her disgust to the world.