It was a puzzle how he could do so, feeling as he did about the religious Orders.
So insistent did the problem become to his mind that he found himself continually leading the conversation round to it from one side or another.

Mary O'Dwyer told him that she also had a sister in a nunnery.
'She teaches girls to make lace, and wonderful work they do.

She is perfectly happy.

I think her face is the sweetest and most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

There is not a line on it of care or of fretfulness.