He has prescribed the heroic remedies of the soul, desiring me to communicate when he found me weak.

But, if I am not mistaken, he is now turning his batteries.

Either he is giving up a line of attack which has failed, or else, on the contrary, he is improving it, his treatment having produced, without my being aware of it, the effects he was aiming at; in either case, to promote or complete the cure, he wants to send me to a convent.
"The plan seems to be, indeed, part of his system, for he did the same thing when he was helping in my conversion.

He sent me off to a health resort for the soul--and the waters were powerful indeed and terrible; now he thinks I no longer need have so severe a treatment inflicted on me, and he is persuading me to stay in a more restful place, a less bracing air--is that it?
"Even his way of coming up unexpectedly and hurling his opinion at me is not quite the same as it was.

This time, it was, indeed, not he who undertook to crystallize my irresolution by announcing my departure for Solesmes; but it comes to the same thing.